So a new thought for all you psychologists, counselors, or others that just want to be helpful to others. Something that I am coming to get more of an understanding in my journey, is that the more you try to influence others the more you need to come into a deep understanding of who you are and what you believe. From my wonderful lessons of Focus on the Family, your worldview influences everything around you and in turn everyone around you.
One question that is asked as part of the Truth Project is “What is Truth?” which our generation has wandered down a postmodern rabbit hole to find the answer. There isn’t reality, there is only “My” reality. Well when my reality doesn’t meet up with a cop’s reality of what 80 miles an hour feels like or my professor’s reality of what an operational definition means (still being debated in my group dynamics class), what happens? Well, most of my generation shakes it off, that their view and I have my view, and we will agree that what we accept is good for both of us. My confusion is, I still get a ticket, I still get points taken off on the test, someone looses.
Who is winning in our country? We are free to think whatever individually but there is only way the government can be run, there is only one way rules can be laid down. So when we finally wake up and realize that we are getting thrown under the bus of deception, what will be able to do about it?
In the counseling world, I am beginning to see that My worldview, My reality is going to be more influential than I ever realized. The closer My reality comes into line with God’s reality, the more people I am going to see set free from the bondage of a fallen world and fallen human nature. How I see effects everyone I will counsel. If I see God as the righteous Father that will have His justice, my counselees will be encouraged to pay their penance before the wraith of God smites them. If God is just a big sweetheart grandfather, than what accountability do we have to follow. As counselors, as influencers of our world around us, we will be held responsible for every we do (2 Cor. 5:10). So being in a position for someone that comes to be guided, influenced, and vulnerable, I better have my theology straight. If you have a stigmatism, blurry eyesight, you put on glasses to see clearly, but you have to get the right corrective lens or it makes it worse. So before really diving into solving everyone else’s problems so some searching, you don’t want to be the blind leading another blind into a ditch.
One question that is asked as part of the Truth Project is “What is Truth?” which our generation has wandered down a postmodern rabbit hole to find the answer. There isn’t reality, there is only “My” reality. Well when my reality doesn’t meet up with a cop’s reality of what 80 miles an hour feels like or my professor’s reality of what an operational definition means (still being debated in my group dynamics class), what happens? Well, most of my generation shakes it off, that their view and I have my view, and we will agree that what we accept is good for both of us. My confusion is, I still get a ticket, I still get points taken off on the test, someone looses.
Who is winning in our country? We are free to think whatever individually but there is only way the government can be run, there is only one way rules can be laid down. So when we finally wake up and realize that we are getting thrown under the bus of deception, what will be able to do about it?
In the counseling world, I am beginning to see that My worldview, My reality is going to be more influential than I ever realized. The closer My reality comes into line with God’s reality, the more people I am going to see set free from the bondage of a fallen world and fallen human nature. How I see effects everyone I will counsel. If I see God as the righteous Father that will have His justice, my counselees will be encouraged to pay their penance before the wraith of God smites them. If God is just a big sweetheart grandfather, than what accountability do we have to follow. As counselors, as influencers of our world around us, we will be held responsible for every we do (2 Cor. 5:10). So being in a position for someone that comes to be guided, influenced, and vulnerable, I better have my theology straight. If you have a stigmatism, blurry eyesight, you put on glasses to see clearly, but you have to get the right corrective lens or it makes it worse. So before really diving into solving everyone else’s problems so some searching, you don’t want to be the blind leading another blind into a ditch.
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