It’s Funny
It’s funny recently how many times I’ve taken a step back from life and realized how meaningless it all is. I mean what’s the point? Enlightenment? Salvation? Sanctification? Theosis? Realization? Martyrdom? No!
How should I be spending my time? What’s the point of being ‘good’? What’s the point of striving for anything? It’s all fleeting. Nothing is here to stay. The only time you have is now so you better not waste it.
There is no point. Life is about living. Living as best you can. If you die young, you should count yourself lucky you didn’t have to endure a full bout.
Then I look around, slip back into my life and realize it’s not really so bad. This body is not me. This life is not me. When my body dies, that’ll just be its ending, not my ending.
… and after all that, I get another shot to screw it all up again.
August 14th, 2006 at 22:50
Me too.
August 15th, 2006 at 9:02
“I mean what’s the point?”
That is the question, isn’t it? What is the point of our existence?
God created us, in the beginning, to walk with Him in the Garden of Eden. Fellowship with a loving Heavenly Father.
We screwed it up and sinned. We have been walking away from God ever since.
God still loves us and is constantly pursuing that relationship. God wants to spend eternity with us just as He had planned to do in the beginning, but sin can’t be in His presence.
Enter Jesus. He, the perfect and blameless sacrifice, died to wash our sins away so that we might have fellowship with our Father again.
It is very simple and very profound at the same time.
Zach, don’t walk away from Jesus, my friend. Draw near to Him and he will draw near to you.
August 15th, 2006 at 9:05
2 Corinthians 4:4–”The god of this age(Satan) has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
August 15th, 2006 at 9:09
And maybe screw up a tad less next time, eh?
August 15th, 2006 at 10:02
Even with the “screw-ups”, that’s It too!
Life has meaning- in it’s meaningless-ness.
August 15th, 2006 at 13:28
Life is to be lived!
Duh!
August 17th, 2006 at 9:17
Infinite second chances. No worries!