In my personal Bible reading schedule I am up to the middle of the book of Job. It makes me realize that I really don’t have problems. The ability to stay focused in the midst of challenges is usually about a five on a scale of one to ten. It is so easy to drift off, fuzz out and veer off and early in the journey the consequences may be few. Later in the journey however, those mis-directions may come to haunt us. Along the way we have decisions to make about how to handle the new ideas. Here is a great quote from Walter Bagehot in “Physics and politics”:
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It… makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded…Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.”
Many of the great truths and inventions that we benefit from today were once new ideas. We may miss many a great solutions in life simply by shunning a new idea. Our excuses of, “It will never work” or “It’s never been done that way before” get in our way and although the solution may be in front of us, it is out of focus. I pray regularly for focus because clarity of the road allows me to better enjoy the journey.
Have a good time today and check out at least one new idea.
“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away everything has become new”
2 Corinthians 5:17
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