We are bombarded with advertisments and suggestions on how to improve our lives. We can choose from a virtual smorgasbord of Infomercials, Holistic Institutes, Self-Help Books & Audiobooks, Motivational Speakers, Websites, Seminars, Personal Coaching, Online education, Weight Loss and Stress Management Programs all promising a new and improved You! Americans are spending somewhere around 11 billion bucks a year to upgrade Self.
I sometimes notice feelings of agitation when I am around super cool people I perceive to be a few links further along the Evolutionary chain of Self Improvement. My heart beats faster, chemicals secreted into my blood stream create anxious feelings and tightening of muscles. My mind quickly scans the situation and sends the message into my consciousness, “You are not as far along as you SHOULD BE~ Improvement Needed!!” Do you ever find yourself feeling annoyed with people who are going after their dreams and who assume you are going after their dreams too? Does it bother you when you feel like a role player on the stage of other people’s lives?
But where is this all coming from? This universal yearning must come from an awareness that we were meant for more than what we are now. “What are mere mortals that you should think of us, mere humans that you should care for us? For you made us only a little lower than God (in His image), and you crowned us with glory and honor.” (See Psalm 8) We WERE meant for more. My heart knows this. I grew up hearing about Original Sin in “The Fall of Man” but never did I hear about our Original Glory. Glory was before the fall and certainly is somewhere encoded in our DNA.
Maybe we were born with some sort of amnesia, like Jason Bourne of the film, The Bourne Identity, and our life story unfolds like one searching for his true identity. If we really were meant for More, then this struggle makes more sense. This need to improve is innate and like a seed, it is designed to produce something glorious. This desire is trying to lead us somewhere like a migrating bird with an internal GPS, because there is a somewhere to Be. There will always be a Next Big Thing on the market for Self Improvement but there will be no peace until we find ourselves at home in the Presence of Glory Himself.
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