“Is this all there is?” How many times has this question haunted your thoughts? Many of your pursuits have yielded success, but little lasting fulfillment. In fact, once the thrill of your “great” accomplishments wane, the resulting emptiness is often greater. I know the feeling well. I have been on this emotional roller coaster more times than I care to admit. It’s like reading a book or seeing a movie several times and somehow expecting it to end differently. The next conquest will satiate me. The next promotion will quench my thirst. Perhaps when I get married or begin having children this void will finally be filled. On and on it goes. I don’t care how many means or methods Wiley Coyote uses, he never catches the Road Runner; yet we keep watching, waiting, and wondering will this be the time his plan works?
Why do we continue to subject ourselves to playing a game we know we can not possibly win? What is it about mankind that places its hopes and dreams in a system inherently flawed at best (and destructive by design)? The system of which I speak is the product of fallen man. Nothing that has its genesis in sin can possible yield an increase worthy of our desire and/or pursuit. The world as we know it is quickly coming to its climax. In like manner, the world’s system continues to unravel with each passing day.
There is a voice we hear calling from within, ever challenging us to step beyond the question “Is this all there is?” and urging us to pursue what we can not see with our natural eyes. God has placed eternity in the hearts of man. The gift of life is nothing more than a seed sown in time and harvested in eternity. As Jesus declares in the 17th chapter of the Gospel of John, “we are in this world, but not of it.” This dual existence must be mastered in order for us to become who we were created to be and fulfill what we have been called to do. The soul of man is eternal; the world in which we live is temporal. Somehow we started approaching life as if our existence is temporal, but the world is eternal. Where did this fallacy begin? How and why do we continue to perpetuate it today? Its origin can be found in Genesis; how and why this paradigm continues can be found throughout scripture.
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You've managed to capture the place that I've found myself in. How in the world did I get here? Well that really doesn't matter, what matters is where I go from here. Thank you for putting words to my frustration and for giving me HOPE that I can rest in God because He really does have my best interest at heart.
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