On Man-kind's Identity Crisis.

So I have had the experience as of late, to talk to and advise people that I have rarely even interacted with before; and I have noticed something dire. People are actually STRANGERS to themselves. huh?

Isn't it amazing how terrified people are of themselves? They hide behind their "manners", "politics", and any other false visage they can come up with. Humanity has undergone an identity crisis. I think it goes back to the whole "living loved" thing. Its because people don't love themselves that they have such an issue with being loved!!

I'm not trying to sound better than anyone else when I say, "I am who I am, all the time, with everyone." It may sound like I am saying that from some high horse whilst looking down the length of my nose at all of man-kind, but I'm REALLY not. I just got tired of being everybody.

A good example of this is with Daniel in the Bible. He and the other Israeli dude's were taken into the palace and were told to live as the Babylonian men did. Those fellows drank A LOT, ate gross food, stayed up all night partying, and were basically tired, strung out, slobs. Daniel, being the good Jewish boy that he is, persuades the chief Eunuch to allow him, and the other jews, to eat plenty of fruits and vegitables, drink a lot of water, and go to bed at a decent time. In doing this Daniel proved to be smarter, stronger, and faster than the Babylonian men.

Later in Daniel's life, King Neb (abbreviated) proclamates that all people shall bow down and pray to man-made idols of himself. All that disobeyed would be killed. Daniel, being the good jewish boy that he is, decides to practice civil disobedience and prays to HIS God (The God), and is concequently punished and, you guessed it, thrown into the lion's den!! EEEK!! BUT Daniel, being the good jewish boy that he is, KEEPS PRAYING, even in timess of extreme peril, and God saves him!! YAY GOD!!

Its like society has given us these horrid examples of how to dress, act, talk, and pretty much LIVE our life!! Ummm hello people. That makes NOOOOO sense whatsoever. The Bible gives us better examples. Daniel was the same in the court, in his room, and in a den full of lions.Jesus was the same in church, out of church, at the dinner table with the tax-collectors and sinners, on the hill with the gentiles, in the garden with his peeps, in the court with Pilate, and on the Cross.

Uh Yeah.

As a man, I have one life to do as much of the will of God before I die, so why not model it by HIS examples. Duh.