Become New with John Ortberg Episode 28 - Which Question Shall I Ask?
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Mar 26, 2021 A reflection on two life-shaping questions: whether we manage expectations or ask what life expects of us. Viktor Frankl’s ideas about finding meaning through creating, love, and suffering get explored. Stories of people discovering purpose amid illness and hardship are shared. Jesus’ surrender and the meaning found in response to circumstance are highlighted.
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Life As The Questioner Not The Servant
- Life asks us questions rather than us asking life what it should give us today.
- John Ortberg, citing Viktor Frankl, reframes purpose as responding to life's demands instead of engineering ideal circumstances.
Daily Steps To Answer Life's Demand
- Regularly answer life’s questions by admitting mistakes, seeking change, and surrendering to God's work in you.
- Ortberg outlines daily practices: honest self-examination, confession to another, asking God to change you, and prompt amends.
Engineer Found Meaning Even In Dying Moment
- Frankl describes a brilliant engineer who lost work to illness and found meaning sequentially in creation, love/experience, and finally in the way he suffered.
- The engineer refused to interrupt Frankl before dying so Frankl would be spared—meaning arose in his concern for another at death.
