Doing it on your own

You can either make decisions based on what you know or you can live your life based on truth but what is true? If it is not what you believe to be true then how can you know it? More to the point what is your anchor, what is true north? Is your life line depended upon how you can play the game or is it dependent upon what the Creator of all life says? Why would anyone want to play games when the cost is so high? Is it because, apart from Christ we don’t understand what the costs are? We have a Creator who not only gave us this life we know and love but gave us also eternal souls and the cost is eternal separation from God.

All that we see and know that is good and true has been given to us as blessings from God, the mind cannot comprehend existence without God’s mercy, His love, and His grace. “For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Matthew 5:45 MKJV). Do we really want to know what life is like without God’s intervention? Do we want to gamble on finding out and then living with our decision for the rest of eternity?

God loves us too much not to change us. When you are left alone with yourself, meaning when you come face to face with the reality of who you are without Christ are you satisfied with what you see? Really, all humanity is the same read Psalms, king David struggled with who he was without God. David’s son Solomon who wrote Ecclesiastes did not want for anything and had wisdom beyond his own understanding yet he said, “Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What is the profit to a man in all his labor which he labors under the sun? A generation passes away, and a generation comes; but the earth remains forever.” (Ecclesiastes 1:2-4 MKJV). If ever there was a man who obtained everything it was him still there was a hole inside himself he could not fill. Do we not know God’s Word, are our spiritual ears filled with wax that they cannot hear what the Spirit of God is telling us? Then why do we strive, why do we keep pushing forward if the road leads to nowhere? What is it we are looking for? Might it be we were created for something bigger than ourselves and therefore that which we seek does not come from within but without. Humanity was not created to be complete apart from God and until we awaken to see that we will continue to be tossed on the stormy sea of life this way and that but with God as our anchor and Christ as our north star we will reach our destination.