When we strip everything down to the bottom line, what is man's basic need? Is our basic need money? Is it a husband or wife, a house with a picket fence?
We can have everything this world offers, but unless we know love, we often find we are still miserable; and searching for the meaning of life. Babies die for the lack of it; children grow up filled with hate because they have never experienced what true love is, so they lash out in bitterness of heart. We create a replica of love and think we have arrived, but soon find out the object of our affection is altogether human and transitory, so we turn from it disappointed.
People spend millions of dollars on psychologists, doctors, prescriptions, and books of self-help and philosophy along with a myriad of other things to bring light into their dark place.
"What in this world is life all about?" is the cry of millions.
Where can we find the true meaning for our existence?
The answer is right in front of us where it has always been. Unfortunately, most of us turn our heads because we have had a negative experience where we have seen hypocrisy
displayed from someone we've trusted.
The answer is God. Yup, the One you have grown complacent about or perhaps even grown to hate. Or perhaps the One you just never took the time to really know.
It is far easier, we think, to forge our own way. "God is love, whoever lives in love, lives in God, and God in him." (1 John 4:16) He is the only one that will never leave me or forsake me. He is the only one who never lies to me, is the same yesterday, today and forever. Jesus is the only one who can change my darkness into light, carry my heavy burdens for me without payment or price. He is the only one that loves me with a love everlasting, that changes me from the inside.
Why, oh why, do we give up on God so quickly and cling to our own willpower and determination as if we have had great success with that?
Why do we make something so simple so difficult?
copyright 10/30/2015
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