Life is a Temporary Assignment
Originally Written August 22, 2009
Today, I read Matthew 1-4!
Point to Ponder:
- This world is not my home.
Question to Consider:
- Since life on earth is just a temporary assignment, how should that change the way I live today?
Isn't it?
What happens afterward is of course the million-dollar question separating true believers from skeptics. How much would it suck (high scholarly language alert!) to live an entirely ascetic life next door to the world's most flamboyant millionaire, only to die and find out that nope, sorry. That was it. Hope you made it count.
Which of course is where faith enters into the equation. And that, as I've gone through this seeking process, has proven time and again to be my biggest holdup. Now granted, that probably seems decidedly un-profound ("Gee. The seeker has faith issues. Go figure..."). But it's a real and troubling affliction. Somehow, I have to talk my analytical brain into not only believing something it can't even see, but I have to do so and start living my life as though it's merely a temporary layover on a much, much longer trip.
On the flip side of that, though, it is actually comforting to think of even the possibility that there's more to life than what happens on earth. Suddenly makes my mediocre job and the great grad-school flame-out seem at least a little less catastrophic.
But there's still that bridge that I have to take, the jump I have to make. I'm glad that I have a place like Quest and a great group of guys in my Life Group and elsewhere to help me sort it all out. If life here is temporary, I don't have much time to waste!
Verse of the Day
"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but is unseen is eternal."
- 2 Corinthians 4:18 (NIV)
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