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Why Did Jesus Care What People Thought?

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Published on May 21, 2013, by in Personal Development, Spiritual.

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” “Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets.” (Matthew 16:13, 14 NLT)

So I’m curious. Why did Jesus ask his disciples what other people were saying about him?
Was this some type of informal poll or executive 360 evaluation?
Had Jesus heard rumours and was trying to either confirm or quash them?

If he was just trying to find out what his disciples thought, he could have simply and directly asked them. Jesus never seemed to have difficulty being direct with those closest to him.

Maybe this was one more glimpse into Jesus humanity. His very human struggle with insecurities and the effects of others opinions.

“Are people talking about me?”
“What are they saying?”
“What do you think?”
“Do you agree with them?”

I’m just wondering, but if Jesus wrestled with some insecurity, then perhaps he can identify with me in more ways than I thought.
When I pour out my heart and wrestle with who I am, what others say about me and my purpose, He knows exactly what I mean. From experience.

Just a thought. What do you think?

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Habits Don’t Change Themselves… Usually!

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Published on May 17, 2013, by in Personal Development.

Did you ever notice that it’s only the habits you don’t want that seem to create themselves with little intention on your part?

The habits you really want to have in your life seem to take serious intentions, concentration and a lot of work to show even a fragile existence in your lifestyle. And even then, you take your eyes off them for a minute and… they are gone!

Why is that?

Seriously, why is that? ‘Cause I don’t know.

I know that I started a writing habit a couple of weeks ago, then entirely forgot to write anything yesterday. It never entered my mind even though it was on my daily reminders list.

I know that creating new habits is hard. Usually you need to put into place some supporting structure to make it stay. New habits are fragile and need scaffolding. Even then they often fail to firm up and stay put.

A more effective way of creating new habits is to replace something else. Maybe we can only use just so many habits at one time. This seems to be especially true when it comes to getting rid of bad habits. You can’t just quit, you have to replace.

So here’s a challenge. What’s one habit you either want to start or you want to quit? What’s your game plan?  How will you make it work? Give me your ideas in the comments below.

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There Is A Glitch In The Matrix

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Published on May 15, 2013, by in ramblings, Technology.

I’m a big “Matrix” fan. Yeah I know it’s just a movie but it offers some challenging ideas. 

At least in the first move. In reality the rest of the franchise was highly disappointing but didn’t diminish the brilliance of the first movie.

Anyway, I’m not talking about that today.

I’m simply writing to apologize because my post yesterday morning didn’t get published on time. I had finished the post, but somehow there was a glitch and it didn’t get published. With all my technical know-how and ability it still didn’t work. I probably forgot to push the publish button. :-)

EDIT: this post was supposed to go out on Wednesday and for some reason it didn’t either. Now I think there is a ‘conspiracy‘ going on.

Guess what?

That’s kinda how life it.

Sometimes you think you’ve got it all figured out but it still doesn’t work out right.

Life is more art than science. More experiment than formula. And no… there isn’t a glitch in the matrix.

It’s called living.

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