God's Plan
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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The doom-and-gloom writings of prominent writers have been given prominence in books, magazine articles, radio and television fueling the pessimism of our time.
Hemingway admitted that he "lived in a vacuum ... batteries dead ... and no current to plug into." Another writer and playwright, Eugene O'Neill, said in a play, "Life's only meaning is death." The random shootings, suicides, even among school children, reveal how these "great" philosophers testimonies about life and death have grasped the minds of young and old today.
How far the above scene is from God's intention for every person's life! He made each one of us, and our lives are miracles. He had a purpose in making each one of us. We are to have a relationship with Him, in which we love Him; have fellowship with Him now and forever.
If we fail to fulfill this purpose, we are lost, confused, bewildered. We then feel that we don't fit, have any purpose, become unhappy. Life becomes unfulfilled. We drift and have no personal destination, or goal for our lives. We become like the writers mentioned above. The sad thing is that their philosophy is widely publicized, and can be contagious.
We read and hear over and over that education is the answer to personal and social problems. Education is good and helpful to our living. However, we find that the highly educated people also have greed, hates, passions and lusts that are not eliminated by education. In fact, an educated pagan is more dangerous than those lacking education as they have more knowledge to do wrong.
In this milieu came and comes Jesus to bring us God's purpose once again as God intended for each person. Due to the deep root of sin, God sent His Son to "clean the slate" for each of us who would believe and grasp the chance to be freed from sin, by exercising our faith.
The Lenten period in which we find ourselves, established in the church long ago, underscores our need to accept God's gift of His Son, Jesus, who paid the debt for our sins on the cross. Then, in thanksgiving, we should seek and live the plan which God has intended for our life in glad fellowship with Him now and into eternity. This is God's intention for your and my life.
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
The doom-and-gloom writings of prominent writers have been given prominence in books, magazine articles, radio and television fueling the pessimism of our time.
Hemingway admitted that he "lived in a vacuum ... batteries dead ... and no current to plug into." Another writer and playwright, Eugene O'Neill, said in a play, "Life's only meaning is death." The random shootings, suicides, even among school children, reveal how these "great" philosophers testimonies about life and death have grasped the minds of young and old today.
How far the above scene is from God's intention for every person's life! He made each one of us, and our lives are miracles. He had a purpose in making each one of us. We are to have a relationship with Him, in which we love Him; have fellowship with Him now and forever.
If we fail to fulfill this purpose, we are lost, confused, bewildered. We then feel that we don't fit, have any purpose, become unhappy. Life becomes unfulfilled. We drift and have no personal destination, or goal for our lives. We become like the writers mentioned above. The sad thing is that their philosophy is widely publicized, and can be contagious.
We read and hear over and over that education is the answer to personal and social problems. Education is good and helpful to our living. However, we find that the highly educated people also have greed, hates, passions and lusts that are not eliminated by education. In fact, an educated pagan is more dangerous than those lacking education as they have more knowledge to do wrong.
In this milieu came and comes Jesus to bring us God's purpose once again as God intended for each person. Due to the deep root of sin, God sent His Son to "clean the slate" for each of us who would believe and grasp the chance to be freed from sin, by exercising our faith.
The Lenten period in which we find ourselves, established in the church long ago, underscores our need to accept God's gift of His Son, Jesus, who paid the debt for our sins on the cross. Then, in thanksgiving, we should seek and live the plan which God has intended for our life in glad fellowship with Him now and into eternity. This is God's intention for your and my life.
C.L. Hendrix
Winona Lake, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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