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I am always reminding myself to stick more efficiently to priorities. Life is so short. We don’t have the luxury of attending to every last little detail or whim that comes across our path. We should prioritize and get to the most important things first. Which I’m sure we all do each day, right? Yeah, sure we do. Well… we do consider the issue once in awhile perhaps.
We have to allow time for all kinds of things though. You know. The list is as endless as it is diverse. If we don’t prioritize, however, we’ll later on regret that some things didn’t get done.
Most of us get distracted and sidetracked too easily. I know I do. Life forces distractions upon us. There’s nothing we can do about that. It’s just the way life is: it ambushes you. You start something and sure as the ‘dickens, here comes something else seducing (or forcing) your time and attention. You’ll, of course, be able to attend to the distraction quickly and be able to return to the higher priority task => post-haste. Correcta-mundo? Well, if you’re like me, too many embedded hierarchies downstream, you find that you don’t even remember what it was you were doing in the first place.
This, in somewhat distracted fashion, brings me to my point. What is your most essential priority in life? It is my belief that you should have one central overriding priority. With the passage of time, one central passion should become the dominant theme in your life. If you don’t yet know what your primary passion is, perhaps that’s why you feel such a void inside. We were all created for a purpose. It’s up to us to find out what that purpose is.
In my mind, God created us as free-willed sentient beings: beings whom innately possess free-will. Free-will, by definition, facilitates both benevolent and wicked transaction. That sure sounds like a formula for widespread chaos to me. We live in a dog-eat-dog world. There’s just no getting around it. It’s the curse that sin has brought upon us.
So concomitant with free-will, I don’t have to tell you, tremendous evil has been released into our world. The second law of thermodynamics proves that we live within an entropy-degenerative/death-seeded cosmos (“the wages of sin is death”). Within that construct, there are far too many human and spiritual free-wills working at cross purposes to be able to reasonably expect a benign or benevolent environment. Wouldn’t you agree?
For me, the essential existential question in life is the question: is there a God? Yes? No? Or Maybe? If there is a God, what does He require? I think any truly objectively-minded person will probably pose the same question. If there does, indeed, exist an omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent God, you might be well advised to take heed. Sound logic requires this, doesn’t it?
Let me paint the edges of what is, for me, the Grand Panorama. The Grand Panorama is so overwhelming that words fail. God offers us something so majestic, so wondrous, and so incredible that: the temporal distress that we now suffer is as nothing compared to “the glory that is to be revealed.”
What is promised the believer is greater than can be imagined. If a person repents and accepts Jesus Christ as their savior, he(she) will be saved. That’s what the Word of God promises: “draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you.” When you repent and accept Christ, you are truly reborn. God will come and live with you. He will commune with you in a fashion, I’m sorry, that is just too wonderful for words.
It has always been man’s dream to create a utopia on this earth. Well, as impressive as man’s technological advances are, man will never be able to create a utopia. It’s not going to happen. Science will never save us from ourselves. But listen: Good News has already been provided for us.
The Son of God has paid for our sins and has given us eternal life. He gives us a kingdom from above that He promises is never-ending. I apologize for all the superlatives, but the Kingdom of God is just the most delirious and inconceivable dream come true. Jesus said: “I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE.”
Jesus is not a spiritual guide. He is not just an enlightened guru. He is the pre-eternal and all powerful Son of God. He is the great I AM! It is up to you to discriminate whether or not Jesus was telling the truth. If He wasn’t telling the Truth, He was obviously a complete fraud, right?
God didn’t want clones or robots. And He wasn’t about to compromise Holy Law. God desired to have fellowship with His creation. God’s foreknowledge and our free will are not mutually exclusive. Both dynamics exist independently yet fully co-exist in total harmony. Reality has been majestically and asymptotically conjoined together in a somewhat perplexing singularity called => YOU! Huh? What’s that? Yeah, me too 🙃.
“Faith, hope, and love remain.” And sustain. As they do, I have faith in your safe passage, dear reader. There is hope for your life because there truly is a God. I am as sure of that as I find myself sitting here right now. God loves you much more than I could ever communicate.
You are truly the primary, free-willed agency making the driving-function decision regarding your destiny. God expresses it this way: “And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” It’s your call => truth teller or fraud? Has to be one or the other.
May God Bless,
JCT (John)
P.S. Check out these great artistic renditions of Jesus. Web site by David Sorensen (thank you, David)
JCT - Born Again 