SPIN

Right now in our American News Culture we have a phenomenon, which has been going on for millennia, but has recently been given a name… Spin.

Spin is where you can take any given situation and turn it in such a way as to serve your particular agenda, for good or bad. And so you have republicans against democrats, conservatives against liberals each spinning what one another says and does, each spinning current local, national, and world events to serve their agenda.

So, the question… Who is right?

How do we figure it out?

Here’s what we need to understand… there always has been and always will be a spin on things, because spin is simply perspective.

There is a spin for every people group, social, economic, religious, political, you name it.

Everyone has some kind of foundation they are building off of when it come to perspective. Whether is upbringing and parental influence, peer pressure, education, personal life experiences the point is we have these factors that helped us develop perspectives about things and those factors cause us to each perceive situations and topics differently than others.

So, what do we do?

Choose!

We must choose our foundation from which we will interpret life. Or better said, we must pick what shade of glasses we want to look at life through. This in turn will cause us to interpret life and all it’s issues with a certain spin.

For some of us we will have experiences that will cause the shade of our glasses to change slightly or severely and thus we will have a new spin on life.

My input… Start with the beginning… go back to the Creator and his operation manual, history of engagement, record of intent (The Bible) whatever you want to call it. Cooperate with God instead of resisting.

You can choose to try some other way and have a different spin on life, but my experience and my understanding of God’s word have shown all other ways to be far short of God’s best for each of our lives.

Just understand… having a change of internal beliefs means nothing if we don’t apply it. If it doesn’t change our life is it really real?

To many people decide, “Okay, I’ll believe in Jesus and go to church”, but then find it to still be empty, miserable, and really no easier or enjoyable than what they had… it’s because they’ve simply embraced Jesus as a religion… a hobbie… an addition to their pre-existing lifestyle, rather than as a whole new way of life. They’re still trying to hold on to the old and the new at the same time, and this won’t work, it’ll just leave you hurt, confused, and miserable, just as if you were trying to go North and South at the same time… can’t do it.