FINDING ONE'S SELF

FINDING ONE'S SELF
I remember "the good old days" when a young person said he was trying to find himself by going to college or joining the peace corp or taking a road trip. NOW, people say they find themselves when...

THEY GO TO THE BATHROOM, that is, the boys go to the girls bathroom and the girls go to the boys bathroom, thinking that they are "trapped in the wrong body," believing that nature (or heaven forbid, God) made a mistake, or...
THEY GO TO A "TRAINED" COUNSELOR, that is, they go to some psychologist (read that, whacked-out, perverted, humanist therapist or secularist social worker) who feeds them the poison of humanistic swill, or...
THEY GO TO THE OPERATING ROOM, where they get their plumbing reworked, thinking that gender is determined by genitalia, or...
THEY GO TO THE RACES, that is, the white person thinks he should be from the African (black) "race," or the Indian (Native American) "race" or some other absurd crossover, or...
THEY GO BACK TO THEIR ROOTS, which takes them away from the accomplishments and attainments gained by their forefathers who fought and died to bring them freedom, prosperity, success, or...
THEY GO TO THE "NEXT LEVEL", which is actually the next level down because it takes them away from God and the Bible and the salvation that is in Christ.

IT IS TRUE THAT PEOPLE ARE LOST.
However, we never, "find ourselves" until we find ourselves in the pig trough of life, rebelling against God. Then we need to, "come to ourselves" and turn to God, as the story of the Prodigal Son indicates. (Please read the Passage from Luke, below).

Luke 15:12-24
(12) And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
(13) And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
(14) And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
(15) And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
(16) And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
(17) And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
(18) I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
(19) And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
(20) And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
(21) And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
(22) But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
(23) And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
(24) For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

(11/4/15 dlg on fb)