Fixing myself - period.

If you or i were to walk into a bookshop, you'd be greeted with a table or two of "self help", life guidance books.

"12 Rules for Life"
"Be you"
"Living Proud"
My 'favourite' and most subtle:
"The art of not giving a #%ck"

During my tenture in India, many of them cling to their gurus and sages, to get guidance and catchy 1 liners that sound very deep and profound.

Do this, do that, adhere to this, adhere to that....and then you will fix yourself.... a bit like this post.

The very basis of looking for fixes to our lives, presupposes that something is broken, or not how it ought to be.

When 100,000's of people pay money and take time out to listen to a Canadian Psychologist to find possible answers to problems we all have in the passage of time, is a rather loud alarm bell about our own awareness that problems within oursleves (and others!) exist.

But we know from experience that not all answers are right.

Defining the problem first, before looking for answers is needed.

Here's where Romans 10 is quite profound :

"I know what enthusiasm they (Jews) have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God."

Isn't is odd that for almost all of humanity, we recognise we need a fix, a solution, perhaps even call it, 'to obtain salvation', yet for the majority of us, we want to define our own method of salvation?

In fact, for many we don't want to get right with God, but fix other peripheral, though important things.

Like the garden of eden, we want to define our own moral law, we break it and then go back to define our own solutions, that don't work....

For many of us, we are very sincere in wanting to fix ourselves.
But sincerity misdirected, is still misdirected and misplaced.

Thank you God, not that i am good or superior in knowledge, but that You have provided a path to fundamentally fix me!