Jesus is my Life Coach

These days, it's all the rage to be into life coaching; either to have one or to be one. People want to improve their lives. More happiness, more money, more power - and a life coach is just the person to help you do that. He or she is an expert (or at least a perceived one) in a field and their job (for a fee) is to help you attain your goals

Now I am not against all forms of coaching. I benefit greatly from my tennis coaches, my judo teachers and other instructors. If you ask someone to teach you about managing your money, a good financial coach should be able to give you some pointers. It would be singularly foolish of me to say I don't need coaches and can teach myself everything, and it would be highly arrogant as well.

But I am particularly sceptical of life coaches. That is, those who say that they know how life works, so they can help you to achieve greater happiness and get the things that you want out of life . Not that they can't. I'm sure they can..in a manner of speaking.

No, I am wary because they help you attain exactly what you want, and usually what you want is not what Jesus wants. If my desires and motives are not exactly cracked up to what they should be in the first place (read Jeremiah 17:9), then anyone assisting me in reaching those goals are complicit in a bad, bad thing. Sorry, Life coaches, that is the truth.

If I coach someone into thinking that they are a good person, that all they need to be happy is to be self-actualising and realise their inner potential; I am deceiving them into what needs to be actually done. They, and you presumably, are still sinners on the road to condemnation. That's not Life, but Death coaching.

Life can only be found in Christ. It can only be taught through the Word. The leading can and should come only from the Holy Spirit. And all the lessons that you will be coached will be ones that are diametrically opposite to what the world thinks you need to learn. Instead of asserting yourself, you are asked to be meek. Far from living for one's sake, you die to your self for the sake of Christ. And lastly, you count what is seen to be worthy in this world as worthless for the true riches of what is to come in the life hereafter

Can a Life coach give you that, my friends? Can they offer you Hope..or life,really?

No, they can't. And if you are attuned to Christ, you will know this too and stay away from another worldly trinket that has the appearance of a precious stone, but under closer inspection; is merely just a fake bauble.

SDG