Faith’s centrality

Most times I hear of discussions of love and selfishness in the Christian life, I feel like we are stuck on a treadmill inside a maze on a foggy night.

I don’t think the ultimate issues boil down to selfish motives v. selfless motives. I think we’d be better off asking, “Who do you trust?” Do you think you know what your ultimate happiness would be? Are you confident that you know how to acquire it? Then the problem is not a desire for “happiness” (a term that is almost as abstract–and therefore as useless–as “being”), but autonomous unbelief.

We’re supposed to trust God about the path and the desirability of the goal. Worry about motives after you have made sure who you trust.

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