From the stellar rise in cosmetic surgery; to the latest track and field athlete to face a ban for using performance enhancing drugs; to the spam offering Viagra that bombards our email inboxes; ‘enhancement’ is the word of the day.
In his letter to the believers in Philippi, Paul wrote of having learnt the empowering secret of being content in any and every situation (Philippians 4:11).
Not content with any and every situation. The person who believes that they are, or should be, content with any and every situation can never make a difference to the lives of others; can never confront oppression and injustice; can never take up the Jesus manifesto to proclaim freedom for the prisoners, recovery of sight for the blind, and release for the oppressed; can never lay down their lives in the hope of something better. Indeed, the primary purpose of power discourses is to keep us persuaded that we are content with any and every situation…
But, equally, the person who is not content in any and every situation can never make a difference to the lives of others either. They are too busy tinkering with, tweaking at, their own; seeking to find their lives, and losing them in the process.
Enhancement [just to clarify, I am not talking about reconstructive surgery after illness or accident] is all about not being content in any and every situation. We live in a culture in desperate need of discovering the secret, before it enhances itself to death…
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