A few times in life, one reflects on their past decisions. The situations that we left undone, the life that one has up until this point. In the midst of these moments, we wonder both aloud and in our own solemn sacred space about the impact we have made on humanity. No one wants their life to be lived without purpose; while some lives may end in this manner; I doubt highly that this was the initial intent. So much so is the case for me on today. In moments of great frustration, while I am inclined to write; I attempt to pace myself and wait till I am able to calm down and write coherent and complete thoughts.
So here it goes, One of my greatest challenges in life is attempting to Love people when you dont receive love in return. Quite possibly for me; love is the unrelenting audacity to hope against hope for the betterment and success of the other. In Smoke on the Mountain- Joy Davidman, C.S. Lewis's wife stated;
For many contemporaries God has dwindled into a noble abstraction, a tendency of history, a goal of evolution; has thinned out into a concept useful for organizing world peace - a good thing as an idea. But not the Word made flesh, who died for us and rose again from the dead. Not a Personality that a man can feel any love for. And not, certainly, the eternal Lover, who took the initiative and fell in love with us.
Is it shocking to think of God as a pursuing lover? Then Christianity is shocking. If we accept the supernatural only as something too weak and passive to interfere with the natural, we had best call ourselves materialists and be done with it-we shall gain in honesty what we lose in respectability. Here's a test to tell if your faith is anything more than faith - and - water. Suppose that tonight the Holy Spirit lifts you high into space, speaks a message to your conscience, then invisibly tucks you back into your safe little bed again. Will you consider the possibility that this experience is genuine? Or will you conclude at once that you must be crazy, and start yelling for a psychiatrist?
And here's a more practical test-since, in all probability, very few of us will be lifted from our beds tonight. Do you think that Christianity is primarily valuable as a means of solving our " real " problem - i.e., how to build a permanently healthy, wealthy, and wise society in this world? If you do, you're at least half a materialist, and some day the Marxists may be calling you comrade.
