You may have listened to the very popular podcast where the world-famous entrepreneur talks about the world’s failure to give us real freedom.
He starts by talking about a friend, and ‘she is just over thirty-years-old, she doesn’t have kids, she’s freelance, she works at home [so, she’s free and financially successful].’ But then he says this—
When I asked her what her meaning and purpose in life was, she said she wants to get to having two-hundred plants—plants she can water. [And] name all of them.
She then told me a week later that she’s in therapy because she feels lost and stuck in life.
And then he says this—
It appears to me […] that freedom, independence, being your own boss, the decline in people having children, the glamorisation of “do it yourself, do it your way” is failing people in some way.
I […] went through the same new atheist baptism [in the 2000s] I read all those books at eighteen years old, […] I was debating dog-walkers on the street about God. I was such a staunch atheist, but I now find myself in a position where I’m almost back to being curious again, because it feels like independence wasn’t the answer.
And I’m most interested in that conclusion that he gets to ‘Independence wasn’t the answer’. And the reason that strikes me is because in Acts 16, one conclusion that we should still be trying to wrap our heads around is the fact that only Christ brings freedom so that anyone who is pursuing freedom by some other means is going to miss out.
