When I walked into this seminar, I didn’t know what to expect. I thought I was walking into a talk about witchcraft and practices, but instead, I walked into a breakout session that was occurring during this seminar about finding the why of practicing witchcraft. The speaker made some interesting comments that I caught.
The speaker stated, “I would say that the why is the resource that you can draw from to help you make informed choices, to motivate you, exercise your capacity. It's a resource that you can draw from just as much as a repository for magic or something like that. A potion or, you know, those are all resources. But I think the why is a particularly important resource because it's drawing from yourself in a way that is productive. So basically, what's in it for you? In other words, who are you? What is your deepest motivations? What are you getting out of this? What relations are you building through your practice? Your ancestors' experience? Animal beings? Mother Earth? Or it could just be yourself.
Maybe your higher self, or maybe your middle, and most, you know, those all can be relations. You know, even relations with objects.
Like what do you gain or help you to create the why?”
After that, a worksheet was passed out. I overheard the speaker stating that we would complete the worksheet, discuss it, and then be done. After I heard that, I walked out of the session.
(Below is the worksheet and the presentation that was given).
The Truth of the Matter:
As I said, I didn’t know I was walking into a seminar about “finding your why” within witchcraft. I thought it was going to be something completely different, but interesting enough, it made me think. Within Christianity, is there also a why that we discover?
Now, entertain me here for a second and think about this. You have a speaker stating that “a why is a resource you can draw from,” and the thing is that it is true. We, as humans, find a why for everything: why we do the jobs that we do, why we are fascinated with specific sports teams, why we read the types of books we do, and even why or how we end up watching certain types of movies.
When it comes to Christianity, it's actually the complete opposite; we don’t find the why, the why finds us. 1 John 4:19 puts it simply, “We love because he first loved us.” John 15:16 states, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”
We don’t have to search for the why within Christianity because the why is already there. God chose to save the world by sending Jesus to die on the cross for our sins.
John 3:16-18 states, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”
Due to sin being within the world, we have already been condemned to hell. Romans 6:23 states, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” and Titus 3:3-5 states, “For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.”
God saved us not through our works or finding our why, it's only because of the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross for our sins. So that we would have eternal life, and I think that is a pretty good “why”.