As humans we think that we are the smartest and most powerful things in the universe, and to be honest we have accomplished some cool stuff. Like sending people into space, brain surgery, and making the power to destroy an entire city in the blink of an eye. But are these truly our greatest accomplishments? Are these things and others like them truly our only legacy on this earth in our brief existence?
Throughout the course of day I was struck several things which by themselves seem insignificant but chaining them together they become a wake-up call to all willing to take the time to see the connection. The three simple things that I saw where this: two signs and one lyric of a song. The signs where road signs one being a street name and the other a warning sign. The street name was “best line” and the warning sign was a “no exit” sign. See it’s like I said not really thought provoking or very unique on their own or even together. Now what if you where to look, at those signs, from an unbeliever’s perspective on his own life?
What I mean by this is that no matter what an unbeliever does or says in this life, even if he does it to the best of his ability, there is no exit from what awaits him at the end of it all. Kind of depressing I know but just think about it for a second. I mean no matter what that person does, weather it is run for president, becoming a billionaire, or even finding the cure for cancer, in the end it will not help him to survive the worst place of all. So then what does this secular man do?
He fights! With all of his being, he fights the inevitable. The inevitable onslaught that will both test and overcome us and there is no avoiding it. It is coming to put an end to all our lives, it is death. This is where the third thing, the lyric, comes into play. The lyric is from a song by “Write this Down” called Hand Grenades. It goes like this “We fight with hand grenades because we’ve got nothing left”. That’s what this man, this unbeliever, is and has been doing for his entire life. Fighting the only way he knows how. With earthly, flesh driven things like knowledge and a sense of security brought by power and money. So I ask you, when does it change? When will it end? What will take for this man to finally change his fruitless ways?
It will take someone with a heart like Jesus, someone with the capacity to love this man. But is that all? No. It will take a road with an exit sign that leads to something better. It will take something to show this man how to fight with more than just earthly things. Something that isn’t from this world but from something better. From someone above this world. This broken, sick world that is on a collision course with a time, an event, when all we know, everyone we know will be changed forever. But it doesn’t have to be a change for the worse. Of course that choice is up to you. Bu what is this something that will change it all?
It’s a book. Written by man. Inspired by a Being more powerful than we can ever hope to be, more terrible than our eyes can stand. Wiser than all scholars put together, past, present and future. More beautiful than a thousand sunsets. He is so merciful that He forgave the men that nailed His only Son to two pieces of timber on a hilltop. And most importantly this Being is a being of pure love. Able to love those that in their hourly to hourly lives spit on His name, burn His very words, and kill those that would defend Him. But there is one more thing, He created those same people and He gave them the ability to choose whether to love or hate Him. And what have they done? By the tens, hundreds, thousands, and dare I say millions? They fought Him. Killed His only Son. And ignored His very existence.
Now what about our man? Our unbelieving man of knowledge who constantly fights his own Creator. Who is he you may ask? He is every person who has ever lived. He is Alexander the great. He is the pope. He is your next door neighbor. He is your mother, your father, your grandparents, even the pastor of the church down the street. He is you and he is me. Everyone who has ever lived laughed, loved and breathed is guilty of the worst and despicable actions and does them repeatedly. And what does our Father, our Creator, do?
He forgives us. Each and every time we trespass against Him, He forgives us. There is no limit to His forgiveness. Nor is there an exact path that we need to follow. All that we must do is to follow Him, because He knows that although we do great evil, we can also do great good for those around us. And all we have to do is follow His book and its path to best of our abilities. And the most important thing of all is to love others just as He loves us. We don’t have to be perfect at it; we don’t even have know exactly what we are doing. All we have to do is try. Try with all our might and He will in turn forgive, cherish and love us no matter how many times we screw up. Always and forever He is our Provider, Friend, Brother-In-Arms, Guide, Creator, Father, Protector, Judge, and Savior.
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