There is a primary human need, stronger than the need for food, sex, or love, all of which have been designed into our nature by God. That is the need for recognition, the need to make one’s mark in the world. One makes their mark according to one’s capabilities. If you have talents, you exercise them: If you are Mozart, you write The Magic Flute. If you don’t, (or believe you don’t because someone has taught you that fallacy) you thrust yourself into the path of others in cruder ways- you wear stupid T-shirts or you become the know-it-all or the impresario at the back of the bus. If your life has been stunted from the beginning by violence, dysfunction or harsh surroundings, then you might steal things or destroy things and hurt the innocent- animals and people. It is interesting to note that every serial killer started out hurting animals. You do anything, anything to leave an image of yourself in other peoples minds.
How wonderful to know that God’s grace can reach down into any life and change the heart so that this innate quest becomes part of the Way of Love. Anyone can change for the better. All it takes is surrender, even in the smallest manner, to the sway of divine grace. Remember, God does not want golden vessels or silver vessels… He wants YIELDED vessels. Here’s to yielding to the Way of Divine Love. This is why people from the same type of background can end up so differently. One yields to dysfunction and hurt. The other to function and compassion, which brings healing and triumph. Think on these things.
