How do you get the most from life?
The headline promoted another foolproof strategy for identifying what you want from life—and getting it. Who wouldn’t sign up for that?
I’m certain God didn’t create us to spin the hamster wheel that for many has become the American dream—we go to work to get the money to buy the food to get the strength to go to work to get the money…and hopefully there’s a bit left over for the distraction of shiny toys, weekends, and two-week vacations.
I’m all in for anything that breaks that cycle. But I’m pretty sure “getting more out of life” is just another wheel-spinning strategy. Spinning the wheel better, more efficiently, isn’t the answer.
Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare. (Isaiah 55:2)
The wheel deceives.
From the hamster’s perspective, the wheel looks a lot like a ladder. All that effort feels like progress.
Like the hamster, we chase bread that doesn’t nourish and expend effort without truly meaningful results.
The solution to this deception isn’t a shortcut strategy for getting more out of life. Better wheel-spinning still leaves you spinning your wheels.
You escape the wheel by understanding that life isn’t about what you get out of it.
More tomorrow.
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