The Power of I Am Not
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Book Details
Author(s)
D Zeidler
Publisher
Kay Sera Writing
ISBN / ASIN
B01A9PU3OS
ISBN-13
978B01A9PU3O9
Marketplace
Germany 🇩🇪
Description
From the introduction:
“I am Oz, the Great and Terrible…†the redemptive figure informs as L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz constructs a story to criticize the political ethos of his day around the basic premise that meager decrees make the Wizard neither great nor terrible. The grander the gesture the larger is the jester. “I’m really a very good man; but I’m a very bad wizard.†The statement “I am†made him not.
Self-proclaimed greatness has dominated culture from Narcissus to the Selfie. Morphing along the line of time from a subtle watermark to an electronically broadcast accounting of a trip to the gas station with accompanying pictures, flattering descriptions, and boisterous shouts of “look at meâ€; the inflated self-worth no longer just permeates the few in the limelight for now the hoi-polloi empowered via a cell phone can also freely embrace self-exaggeration. Thoughts which were once contained in the power of positive thinking have further developed into even greater self-centeredness in the power of “I am…†being pronounced as the key to self-fulfillment and enrichment.
Today Christian leaders have embraced the lunacy of seeking personal proclaimed supremacy through harnessing of the self-empowered. The 2015 release of Joel Osteen’s book or a 2013 release by Thom Rainer both display "I am..." in the title. This self-seeking personal endorsement is nothing new, humans have always sought to hide behind self-aggrandizing; “Then the LORD said to Cain, ‘Where is Abel your brother?’ He said, ‘I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?’†(ESV Genesis 4:9) A human cannot affirm anything into being. Cain killed Able despite his bold indifferent words of proclamation, claiming to be above such a petty pursuit of babysitting. “I am not responsible.†is a reasonable paraphrase of Cain. It is through choices and actions that an individual being is developed. Denial changes not your past actions, nor do statements change the future; rather you and your actions produce results. There is tremendous self-absorbed danger in thinking too much more of yourself than, “I am a sinner.†The proclivity to follow the statement, “I am…†with anything other than humility is an immediate warning of an unsound motive.
“I am Oz, the Great and Terrible…†the redemptive figure informs as L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz constructs a story to criticize the political ethos of his day around the basic premise that meager decrees make the Wizard neither great nor terrible. The grander the gesture the larger is the jester. “I’m really a very good man; but I’m a very bad wizard.†The statement “I am†made him not.
Self-proclaimed greatness has dominated culture from Narcissus to the Selfie. Morphing along the line of time from a subtle watermark to an electronically broadcast accounting of a trip to the gas station with accompanying pictures, flattering descriptions, and boisterous shouts of “look at meâ€; the inflated self-worth no longer just permeates the few in the limelight for now the hoi-polloi empowered via a cell phone can also freely embrace self-exaggeration. Thoughts which were once contained in the power of positive thinking have further developed into even greater self-centeredness in the power of “I am…†being pronounced as the key to self-fulfillment and enrichment.
Today Christian leaders have embraced the lunacy of seeking personal proclaimed supremacy through harnessing of the self-empowered. The 2015 release of Joel Osteen’s book or a 2013 release by Thom Rainer both display "I am..." in the title. This self-seeking personal endorsement is nothing new, humans have always sought to hide behind self-aggrandizing; “Then the LORD said to Cain, ‘Where is Abel your brother?’ He said, ‘I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?’†(ESV Genesis 4:9) A human cannot affirm anything into being. Cain killed Able despite his bold indifferent words of proclamation, claiming to be above such a petty pursuit of babysitting. “I am not responsible.†is a reasonable paraphrase of Cain. It is through choices and actions that an individual being is developed. Denial changes not your past actions, nor do statements change the future; rather you and your actions produce results. There is tremendous self-absorbed danger in thinking too much more of yourself than, “I am a sinner.†The proclivity to follow the statement, “I am…†with anything other than humility is an immediate warning of an unsound motive.
