Tonight I put a status on facebook expressing a struggle that I have been dealing with for the past 2 weeks: the idea of life being a one time thing. A few days ago I expressed to one of my good friends some things that had been going on in my mind. One of the things was trying to understand what this thing called life is all about. Now as a believer in God my faith in accepting Jesus Christ is in the belief that one day we, who have accepted Christ as Lord and Savior will live with Jesus for eternity in heaven forever and ever world without end. This is one of the cornerstones of our belief. We believe this through our faith that Christ rose from the dead. If Christ was not risen from the dead then our faith is in vain.
As a whole lately I have struggled with some of the basic things of life: what is life really about; is there anything after this or is this it. Atheist would argue that we should live life to the fullest because once we die it is the end. That thought it very scary to me because it's like we live just once and then that's it. Again, my faith in God says that there is life after death but sometimes, even as a Christian it is a struggle viewing life as a one time thing.
I guess this is what bothers me about people who never achieve what they can achieve or walk in the full potential they have. If life is a one time thing they do not have another chance to achieve whatever potential God gave. My thinking would make reincarnation a pretty interesting belief to go to. Reincarnation (by the way, I don't beleive in reincarnation, I'm just saying) basically says that you can die as a human and either come back as another human or as something like a butterfly, cow, etc. But if we are just passing through this world and as mean as the world is, then it really wouldn't be the goal of us as Christians to want to come back, if Jesus is eventually going to rule and reign in supreme authority.
I'm not questioning the fundamental beliefs of our faith, I'm just struggling with this notion of life being a one time thing. Lately this thought has given me a drive like never before to begin to walk in the potential God has given me. Life is short and I should not live it not pursuing everything God has for me. This thought also started bothering me while on my trip to Ghana (a blog will be coming about that soon). Someone said (and I'm paraphrasing) that when you think about life being a one-time thing it makes you want to do more. When I first heard it I was like "yeah yeah yeah" and then when I started thinking about deeply I was like....hmmmm, maybe this explains why people do whatever they want.
Has anyone else felt this way? Is anyone currently struggling with this issue (Christian or nonchristian)? This is why I cannot live my life as if it's all about me because I want to see Jesus one day when things will be sweet and I won't have to worry about the things of this world. Our world is mean and I feel like so many people are taking this "realistic/it doesn't bother me so I don't care" approach. I want to hear what others have to say on this.
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