Who Am I (13 of 30)
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 2:9-10
''But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy'' (1 Peter 2:9-10)
Every human being is driven by something. Some people are driven by guilt. Some people are driven by worry or fear. Some people are driven by insecurity. Some people are driven by anger. Some people are driven all through life by resentment. Some people are driven by their past and they spend their whole lives running from their past. Some people are driven by their possessions and the desire to acquire overwhelms them and they're consumed by their consumables. Some people are driven by their parents. Even twenty, thirty, forty years later and maybe their parents are passed away they're still trying to do what Mommy and Daddy would approve of.
If you would look up the word ''drive'' in a dictionary, you would find that it says ''to guide, to control, or to direct.'' When you drive a nail, you drive, control, or direct it into the wood. Many people have attempted to answer the question as to what drives people. Yet every stated purpose, save one, breaks down upon scrutiny. For example, Karl Marx stated that people exist for politics (or the state). Yet if one is driven for the state, what happens when the state exists only for its leaders (read the fatcats) and all the while it tramples on the backs of the common people?
Many today will tell you to live for popularity. Popularity comes in many different forms: athletes, rock stars, movie stars, etc. Many young men would like nothing more than to be famous athlete or entertainer. MTV recently ran a special on the devoted fans of Michael Jackson. One New York man portrayed on the show, probably in ...
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 2:9-10
''But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy'' (1 Peter 2:9-10)
Every human being is driven by something. Some people are driven by guilt. Some people are driven by worry or fear. Some people are driven by insecurity. Some people are driven by anger. Some people are driven all through life by resentment. Some people are driven by their past and they spend their whole lives running from their past. Some people are driven by their possessions and the desire to acquire overwhelms them and they're consumed by their consumables. Some people are driven by their parents. Even twenty, thirty, forty years later and maybe their parents are passed away they're still trying to do what Mommy and Daddy would approve of.
If you would look up the word ''drive'' in a dictionary, you would find that it says ''to guide, to control, or to direct.'' When you drive a nail, you drive, control, or direct it into the wood. Many people have attempted to answer the question as to what drives people. Yet every stated purpose, save one, breaks down upon scrutiny. For example, Karl Marx stated that people exist for politics (or the state). Yet if one is driven for the state, what happens when the state exists only for its leaders (read the fatcats) and all the while it tramples on the backs of the common people?
Many today will tell you to live for popularity. Popularity comes in many different forms: athletes, rock stars, movie stars, etc. Many young men would like nothing more than to be famous athlete or entertainer. MTV recently ran a special on the devoted fans of Michael Jackson. One New York man portrayed on the show, probably in ...
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