The Quintessential Question of Faith
This is, perhaps, the quintessential question of faith. The crossroads of belief. Just as Galileo Galilei stared at the stars in wonder, so do we stare in to ourselves. Why are we here? What is our purpose? The meaning of life, like all philosophical concepts, varies from one person to another. How can one answer this question for another, when answering it for oneself alone is the challange... and perhaps even the very meaning of our existence is to ponder this question.
For me, existence is to come to know God, on my own terms. To prove my love to Him, and to come to know what He has created for me. Like all things, perhaps we do not know what it is to have something, until we do without it for a while. To properly appreciate what sweet God is to us, we must first demonstrate our worthiness... not to God, but rather, to our own hearts. And more, God does not leave us in this existence to merely ponder our way through to His will. He says that He will always be there to help us when we ask it of him. Rather than leave us alone, to know the value of a thing lost, He remains only out of sight - but in our hearts. What value has a gift not earned, to those it was given?
Often, you hear the spoiled children - or people talking about spoiled children - complaining because they want something, and know not the value of what they ask. Would we be spoiled children, were we simply given unto Heaven? That's a thought, isn't it?
And when we do lose our way, why is it then, that God would give his only son that we might, through only a little love, reclaim our place with him? I believe that our purpose in life is to get to know God on our terms, so that we are ready to greet Him on His - and one day, we all must do that.
For me, existence is to come to know God, on my own terms. To prove my love to Him, and to come to know what He has created for me. Like all things, perhaps we do not know what it is to have something, until we do without it for a while. To properly appreciate what sweet God is to us, we must first demonstrate our worthiness... not to God, but rather, to our own hearts. And more, God does not leave us in this existence to merely ponder our way through to His will. He says that He will always be there to help us when we ask it of him. Rather than leave us alone, to know the value of a thing lost, He remains only out of sight - but in our hearts. What value has a gift not earned, to those it was given?
Often, you hear the spoiled children - or people talking about spoiled children - complaining because they want something, and know not the value of what they ask. Would we be spoiled children, were we simply given unto Heaven? That's a thought, isn't it?
And when we do lose our way, why is it then, that God would give his only son that we might, through only a little love, reclaim our place with him? I believe that our purpose in life is to get to know God on our terms, so that we are ready to greet Him on His - and one day, we all must do that.