Our Inborn 'Will to Survive', Does it Lead to Sinfulness?

Does Our Inborn 'Will to Survive' 
Lead to Selfish Sinfulness?
                                       

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We are born coming into this world screaming and crying with a 'will to survive', and very quickly we learn and expect to be served by that crying.  That crying and the 'will to survive' is good because in the crying we develop hope.  Coming to understand 'hope' helps us survive those very early years... and it is understanding 'Hope' that we thrive the rest of our lives.  The difference between our hopes and 'Hope' is critical for our eternal future.

But, our will to survive without proper training leads to selfish daily living.  It is only in the Holy Spirit's guidance that we can truly throw off our selfishness and allow our selfish hope to be redefined AS our will to Thrive through our Hope, Love, and Trust in God the Father and Christ His Son.

Overcoming our selfish 'Will to Survive'

and The Power of Hope to Drive us to Thrive

Among others, there are three important behaviors in overcoming our selfish will to survive.  They all have to do with not just surviving this world, but Thriving in this world for a Glorious Survival beyond this world.

To Thrive For Glorious Eternal survial, 

     we must 

        Trust God, 

         Live in His Will, and 

         Have Hope 

               through the message and life of Jesus Christ. 

It is God's Will we Accept His Son as Savior and Live in accordance with Jesus' Teachings and Behaviors.  Then, according to Saint Paul, we then Have Hope for daily Thriving and Eternal Surviving.

Life changes when we combine our hopes with Trusting God and live in accordance with Jesus' teachings and behaviors.  It is in Jesus' teachings we discover in our circumstances that our hopes in difficult situations become Hope and Joy. Whatever our 'big things' are in our difficult circumstances, we just have to remember that God is bigger than all of it.  And as our present circumstances may be a difficult journey, our Hope for the future includes a greater, better reality than our present-----when we Trust God, feel the Love of Jesus, and Seek the Guidance of the Holy Spirit. 

'our hopes' are not Good Enough
Hope through Jesus goes beyond 'our hopes' of daily survival. With Jesus and living in God's will, we are blessed by God with not just our Faith and His Grace, but too with daily sustaining guidance from God's Holy Spirit.  That Holy Spirit comes when we take living God's will in our lives found through Jesus Christ.  New Hope comes through Jesus when we lay down and dispose of 'our hopes' and accept His teachings and Hopes.

Jeremiah said it well-  

29:11 For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with Hope.

Paul has much to say beyond what Jeremiah had for his time:

Romans 15: 12-13 and again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse shall come, the one who rises to rule the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles shall hope." 13 May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in Hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

But, this understanding of 
Real Hope goes back 3000 years ago.
King David knew very well.
Psalm 39:
4  "Lord, let me know my end, and
      what is the measure of my days, ..... 
       And now, O Lord, what do I wait for?
        My Hope is in you.

Part 2

God's Hope instead of 'our hopes' in our lives

Life is short, in a flicker of a candle in the long night, with the snap of a finger, or the time of an eye blink and we are gone.  
We are told by society 
   to plan our future, 
      get and grab what you can get, 
          depend on and hope in yourself.  
But in this advice, 
   we daily grow weary of the grind,
      we come to know hope in our self accomplishment and 
          our hope is only as good as the last thing you did and
             there is no loyalty in just doing a good job.  
Often doing a good job does nothing for our hope as 
    it just results in no punishment, 
       simply more of the same, and 
         with higher expectations.  
Life becomes 
     a race for the next sales commission, 
        a bigger boat, a bigger this, a better that,
          your bosses' job, and 
     often resulting in disappointment.

But, Jesus set different rules of living life,
    His Rules are our New Hope and 
       His ways 
         are ways contrary 
          to the ways of the world.  

Jesus' 'Rules', 
   these better ways of living, 
      are God's way of living our lives
          that turns life and our society upside down. 
But, the New Rules 
   makes our life more meaningful, 
      more Glorious, and 
        best of all, Hopeful Blessedness knowing our need for God.
 
His way, Jesus' Rules, our new Hope is in Matthew 5,6,7.  There Jesus defines what God wants for us, we understand Jesus walked His talk, and in that He is glorified by God as our Savior.  

Some examples of the New Rules- 
    Our Hope for a better life-

In helping and showing mercy to others,
    so to do most other people show mercy to us.

In seeking to live as Jesus taught, the stress we feel is more about acieveing a goal to better the team and not just ourselves.

In Seeking God's will we are more at ease in our day to day travels realizing we do not have to look over our shoulder or push someone aside to get ahead.

In living daily in God's desires we find our desires become His desires for us and those Desires are much more motivating than relying on the next bonus, the next advancement or the next job.

His Desires for us gives us Hope in our desires

To Survive in this world is not good enough for our lives.  
   We are meant to more than just survive, 
      We are meant THRIVE!
To THRIVE we must Seek the Kingdom,
     a Command of Jesus!   (Matthew 6,33-34)
In Thriving we know 
     His Truth and His commands are good for us!

Finally,
To THRIVE-  and not just survive in this world
   Accept Jesus more fully into your daily life,
    Realize your sinfulness and "Repent"- the first Command
      Feel the Holy Spirit and the Faith given by God,
        Respond to the nudgings of the Holy Spirit,
         Pray often EVERYDAY,
          Daily in our prayers, say, "Dear God, I love you...",
          Live a Life that you can be known as a Child of God,
         Understand that God wants to hear your prayers,
      Seek to feel the Daily Guidance of the Holy Spirit,
    Know that forgiveness comes in forgiving others,
  Understand the fullness of God's Love in sending us Jesus,
In this, you THRIVE.

Thrive in Living Life
   through the Love of Jesus and
     the Guidance of the Holy Spirit,
   it is our Eternal Survival plan in which
      our Daily Hopes are
          God's Hopes for our lives.

Thanks Be to God

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