One problem with the world...

There is one problem with our world and the name of that one problem would be sin.

If we weren't so concerned with trying to make ourselves righteous in our own eyes (forgetting the eyes of those around us) then our lives would be filled with so much more joy and happiness. We're all having so many worries and concerns right now because we're all toying with what we want to be for the rest of our lives. I think the most important lesson we have ever been tought was shared with us in the grade school years: "Just say NO!" In the heat of the battle we all say yes to so many things that end up tying ourselves up in so many knots that we soon forget how we tied all of them to begin with. Religion seems to offer us a way out of tying ourselves up in knots but we're all at a stage in our lives where such a set standard of guidelines is looked down upon by the world; we're not sure if we want to be seen as "close-minded" or a "religious freak". Maybe it's because we're afraid of being proved wrong by someone else who feels differently and feels compelled to try to conform us to them.

Everyone should take the view that everyone is wrong and there is only one solution, but that's only my perspective, another part of which is we all should have the same view of deeper meaning and beliefs but, supposedly "that would make the world really boring." What I believe is conformity will happen in the end anyways, "EVERY knee will bow and tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord," but that's another thing, how willing am I to conform to the rest of what my beliefs say? How willing am I to say that I am wrong and that I need to reconsider some of the things that I do? Somedays I am ready to say that at full voice and cast off my worldy coat. Some days I want to ignore that all together and keep all of the worldy things about myself; I am not strong enough as of yet to pull totally away from all of it and do what I believe God wants me to do. "Lord help me to be strong enough to say no to this world and yes to You and only You every single day throughout the day and until You return." I think it envolves taking one GIANT step of faith in believing in one thing whole-heartedly and then many more and trying each and every day to become closer to God (that which we believe in whole-heartedly).

That's the solution I've found, what's yours?