Christian Life 35 - Solving for X
I expect responses to this one. Don't disappoint me. Imagine this: a mathematician approaches a blackboard covered with an impossibly complex equation; hundreds of numbers, dozens of functions and an array of variables. The mathematician is to solve for x . Now imagine that the mathematician determines that the solution to the equation must be x=0 before even picking up the chalk. If x happens to not equal zero, then they have just doomed themselves to not only spending the rest of their life attempting to manipulate the equation in a vain effort to make x=0 , but also seeing to it that it is a very frustrating life in the effort. After some time, the most casual observer could see that the project was doomed and would consider the mathematician a fool for persisting in his efforts. I believe this is how so many of us approach life. When we reach the age at which we feel the need to develop a personal philosophy and examine the various aspects of li...