Jesus - The Smartest Way to Build Your Life
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In this video, I talk about Jesus, the Bible (The Gospels in the New Testament), The Book of Matthew, priorities, attention, regret, time, virtue, success, and building your best life.
In The Book of Matthew, Jesus said, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” So according to Jesus, the wise man builds his house on rock, while the fool builds his house on sand. And as you’ll see, to me, this is clearly a metaphor for the smartest way to build your life. What does it mean to build your life on rock instead of sand, and how do we do that? That’s what I’m gonna explore in this essay.
Let’s start at the beginning: what does it mean to build your life on rock instead of sand? Building your life on rock means that you’re building your life on a strong foundation, and if you build your life on a strong foundation, you won’t fall apart when hard times inevitably come. You’re able to survive and thrive in any tragedy. All the effort that you put into building your life won’t have been wasted, because your work stands the test of time. You’ll have this constant feeling of moving forward, and you won’t be regretful of how you spent your time. But building your life on sand means that you’re building your life on a shaky foundation, and if you build your life on a shaky foundation, you will fall apart when hard times inevitable comes. When tragedy strikes, you’ll find that much of the effort that you put into building your life has been a waste of time. You’ll feel frozen, or as if you’re moving backwards, and you’ll be regretful. You’ll say to yourself, “why did I waste my time on those things which don’t matter now?” or, ”why did I think those things were so important?” A lot of your time will have been spent in vain, and you’ll find yourself having to rebuild your life once more. So how do we get it right from the start? How do we build our life on rock instead of sand?
The life we build depends on how we spend our attention. Our attention is our most valuable resource, and it’s limited. So how do we decide how to spend it? How we spend our attention is determined by our priorities.And all priorities fall into one of two categories: time-dependent priorities and timeless priorities. So what does it mean, then, to build a house on rock? It means building a life where your highest priority is a timeless one.
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Jesus had a lot of good teachings that sadly get overlooked or warped into something malignant by people seeking power over others. I wish more people who consider themselves Christians would actually strive to live and behave as he did.
Timeless priorities I can think of: Learning (mentioned), curiosity, authenticity, gratitude, creativity
29 years old, this just changed my life. Thank you.
God is timeless. Building a relationship with him is eternal and he should be the foundation of everything we do.
Jesus' message is that our timeless priority should be Love.
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Please never stop what you doing. I thank God for your life, you are truly a gift for this generation.
I cannot overstate how excited I am for these videos on exploring all the religions. Something that is on my list but its so good to get your condensed views on it. Too hype.
Exactly, don't run behind money, work with what you love and the money will come to you as a side effect.
The beauty of this interpretation here is that christians will say the foundation is the word of god which is indeed a timeless priority. For the non religious, learning and a willingness to embrace uncertainty and your failures brings you a sense of power and comfort similiar but different than the power of faith in god. Two paths to the same form of enlightenment.
what a coincidence, just opened youtube and found this video uploaded like in 2 minutes lol - first time...
building a good life upon a timeless foundation resists the pull of worldly distractions, we’re less likely to be consumed by pain or pleasure and instead are absorbed in awareness
Jesus: the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the Father except through Him. He has changed my life. I believe in his divinity as the Son of God. Try his teaching. They will not fail you.
This is why anyone thinking about bringing a child into this world should already have built not only a strong foundation (monetarily, emotionally, spiritually) for their self but have also already built a separate foundation for each of their desired number of children they plan on having.
For me the foundation Jesus speaks is to build our lives based on what he teaches us. The more we focus/prioritize our attention on him putting his teachings into practice, .... the more our life will be better ...Jesus is the rock...Just do things and live life with Jesus. So even if we get cancer, learnings don't matter money don't matter ...what matters is how much we put the teachings of Jesus in our life. How miracles are true,
Thank you for this message it gives me hope. I will continue to have faith in Jesus! I have been struggling financially and mentally because I lost my job as a social worker because I declined the vaccine. I declined due to my pre existing health conditions heart disease and lupus. I’m on a ton of medications already warfarin and blood thinners. Living with lupus is challenging I’m in constant pain. I was denied my medical/religious exemption from Forsyth hospital. Since losing my job I’ve been struggling to provide for my two children. I’m so overwhelmed because both of my boys are autistic. So they require a lot out of me. My husband passed away three years ago so I’m all alone. I’m so down and depressed over my circumstances. I have been called horrible names and mocked because of my situation. I was even accused of lying by christians which really hurt my heart. Every month is a struggle and I’m in fear of being homeless. But I have so much faith that God will provide for me and my children.
I just wanted to leave a message for you somewhere that this whole channel has almost single-handedly turned my life around. Thank you so, so much for all of these videos.
Essentially, to live a fulfilling life, spend most of your time prioritising in this order:
Using time to compare the two types of priorities is so helpful for me. Absolute game-changer. Thank you.
I will watch this ten times more so that i could digest this great wisdom!!