Who Will Run My Life?
2/28/09 Insights from Study I don’t want my life run by powerful corporations. Neither do I want my life run by government and the bureaucracies that suck their lives from it. I don’t want a dictator and I don’t want mob rule. No pope; no deacons telling me how I feel. No rich men; no tramps making my mind up for me. Polluters and protesters – there’s no difference. Looters and donors – they all come from the same place.
We could all get together and agree to provide things for each other. We could decide as a whole on mutual protection for mutual survival. We could be happy to excel in one thing in return for the services of another who excels in something else.
We could be courteous in the expectation that we will be treated courteously. We could practice virtue and take others’ virtue for granted. We could care for those who sorrow and have an assurance that someone would do the same for us.
We could all enjoy the fruits of our labor as long as we labored. We could all feel free to have an opinion as long as we kept informed. We could all have enough as long as we knew what’s too much.
But we don’t do things this way. I don’t have to elaborate – you know what I mean about human nature. I only point out that the human need to have power over another human will step in front of virtuous leanings every time, needing to be constantly monitored and adjusted. This is so obvious that you might want to consider that it’s part of the master plan – present at the moment of creation and played out in a host of different ways. Why? To make it obvious to us that we can’t be entirely virtuous on our own; that we can’t obtain heaven by ourselves; that since we can’t give and receive perfect justice we must give and receive mercy instead.
That is why I don’t want my life to be run by any human being, including myself – because of the persistence of human nature and the affordability of divine nature. I am spiritual; I will allow myself to be powered by God and by God only. I defer my human nature to Him, to receive a degree of perfection even though my role on Earth is small. My role in eternity, in God’s eyes, as His creation, is enormously important. I leave my wishes for God’s, and I welcome Him to run my life. Why wouldn’t I? He’s well more capable than I or any other human.
