Living with Heart: From Birth to Death 62 - The Twelve Movements of a Man's Life #12: A Man Will Step Out into the Future
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A man will step into the future, often armed with nothing more than his own vision, because he trusts that the future is where God lives. He steps into the mystery of the future with hope, fear, and faith.
Hope is the inextinguishable flame of life in all of us.
Fear is the feeling that lets us seek out and ask for help with life’s struggles and questions.
Faith is the connection to God; and trust that our hope is not foolish, and our fear will be heard.
Faith is “being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1 NIV)
Movement #1, “The Order of Love,” is the foundation for the other 11 movements. Episode 50
Movement #1 places the man in need of God, who created him and loves him. He is second, and he draws his strength, courage, and caregiving from God. One cannot give what he/she does not have. A man is created to deliver love to others, starting with his spouse and children (if he has them).
A man who trusts God will step into the future with hope, fear, and faith because he trusts that God wants to “grow” or develop him into all that he is created to become. He has also witnessed the experiences of God’s presence in his life.
Movement 12 can take us in many directions; however, we will focus only on two:
- The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-10) show us the growth process of God.
- A process called Johari’s Window show us what we need in order to grow.
The Beatitudes present us with a series of growth processes. Each “step” evolves into the next growth experience.
I wrote the book The Perfect Loss: A Different Kind of Happiness about the growth processes given to us in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount from Matthew 5:3-10.
Two remarkable things about the paradox of the Beatitudes:
- Jesus says that “Blessed” are those who surrender to and submit to a painful growth process.
- The gift of the first Beatitude and the gift of the last one is the same gift, implying that a person has grown, much like an acorn grows into an oak tree.