In a similar vein to yesterday’s quote (“a true Christian must be willing to sacrifice everything in this life for the sake of the next” –Bruce Shelley), Philip Yancey makes a statement about self-actualization – the idea that everyone needs to find fulfillment in reaching their full potential:
And yet, for all these qualities that point toward what psychologists like to call self-actualization, Jesus broke the mold. As C. S. Lewis puts it, “He was not at all like the psychologist’s picture of the integrated, balanced, adjusted, happily married, employed, popular citizen. You can’t really be very well ‘adjusted’ to your world if it says you ‘have a devil’ and ends by nailing you up naked to a stake of wood.”
–Philip Yancey
I pray that I can become less concerned with self-actualization and fulfilling my own goals and dreams and more concerned with fulfilling the desires of God for my life.