The Most Important Decision (1)

The main idea of this information is about the importance of making a decision to give one's life to God in the Christian context. Believing in Jesus and living a Christian life are seen as separate things. The speaker suggests that living a fully authentic life and growing into one's potential is the key decision in life, rather than living selfishly and following societal rules. The measure of a person's life is how much they have grown into their authentic self and realized their potential. This decision involves recognizing the gift of life and choosing to live it to the fullest in alignment with God. So, the most important decision, I guess in the Christian context, it's called giving your life to God. Having belief in Jesus as the Son of God, or making that leap of faith, but as has been pointed out, believing in Jesus and actually living a Christian life and committing your life to God are two very different things. But I think as with many of these things, when I put it into a different framing, a different wording, it almost sort of makes more sense, and it gets back to that, the nature of the truth, that there is this higher being, this creator, we've been given the gift of life, the opportunity to participate in this world, but then we know, we come to the realisation, hey, it's actually a world of duality, and I have a choice here, I can either live with my ego and also the systems and the rules and regulations and norms of my society and just live in my little box and satisfy my selfish desires and not take any risks, or I can seek to live a fully authentic life and grow into myself by doing the right thing, but also finding my own values and my own authentic beliefs and having the courage to take risks and fully grow into all the potential I can be. That's the key decision in life, and it doesn't mean that, one, we won't do selfish things, or two, we won't struggle to live in authenticity or even fail. So all of those things we'll do. But the key difference is that fundamental commitment has been made. We're on the journey towards our full authentic self with all the stumbles and all the occasional steps backward that will take place, but that's the path we've chosen, versus the path of sort of ego and following the regulations of society. So the true measure, I guess, of anyone's life is how much have they grown into their full authenticity, how much of all their power and their potential have they realized given their circumstances. But I think that decision has to be made, that I love myself, I recognize the gift of my life, and I choose to live it to my full potential in alignment with God.