I was looking at Oprah yesterday and they had this wonderful series going on called Debt Diet. They dealt with the "root" problem for the reason people live outside of there means and why they feel the need to put on this facade for the world. The problem is when you start putting on a facade for so long that you will eventually start believing it. That’s my own analogy. I believe that at first it will become uncomfortable because you know it’s wrong but than, since you haven’t received any “real” bad consequences from it, you continue to do it. When people see you doing well it makes you feel good. We dictate our value based on how the world feels people with value should look and live. This is what God wanted us to be freed from. We are not of this world we should not think like it. We are confused and we do a bad job of it because it is not in our new nature to live like the world live and feel comfortable in it. It will eventually eat you up. You have to do some bad things to keep up with the act and although you may have fooled yourself for a little while, you will find that you can’t go through to the end with the facade.
So, when we find ourselves in situations that are uncomfortable to us, we hide our feeling. We don’t want to face the problem head on. The thing that really captured my attention on Oprah is that the lady (specialist) kept saying that the money problem is a disease. I don’t like that we call everything a disease because it makes a person feel they are not responsible for it. When I think of disease, I think of something that has struck your body mostly due to heredity but she explained that a disease is a dis ease that keeps you from functioning properly. People use food, sex, drugs and yes money to distance them from the real pain they are suffering from and by doing these things, they don’t have to think about it. They want to feel good.
The problem is…if you don’t face your problems head on, you forget what it is that has caused you so much pain. So you go on with life but you still use the same methods to avoid all pain. You never got to the root of the cause until you start to hurt your family and friends and people all around you. You don’t even know you are hurting them by doing this because you have done it for so long.
How to overcome this is to first, accept who you are. For instance, if you are a sensitive person who usually cries, well, start doing that again. If there is a problem, then face it, don’t revert back to the old ways of avoiding it. The problem never, ever goes away. Remember that you are a child of God and he gave us the rule book and instruction manual on how to live here on earth. Notice he gave no specifications on how to live in heaven because we would not even be able to comprehend that life. We are not in heaven we are on earth but we know our permanent home is in heaven. We have something to look forward to. Remember also that our main focus is that in all things that we do, we must glorify God!!!
Written 06/17/10
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