Life is so multi-faceted. We eat, we drink, we love, we laugh, we work, we play, we sleep. Each day we have choices to to make and things to do. We interact with others, we spend time alone. We try and figure out what makes us happy and how to cope in times of difficulty. We try and lose weight. We try and gain weight. We try and get fit and be healthy and do right.
Time barrels onward.
The older I get, the better perspective I get on life. Suddenly, there are more years behind me than there are ahead. My view of what is to come gets a little sharper. I see more of the fact that this earth is not my final home.
I try and imagine what people who don’t believe in God, what they do – what they think. How they cope with the fact that they are cruising towards the end of their life. Do they just try and do more good? Do they just not really worry that there could be something more?
I don’t know the answer because my experience has been so different. There are three particular things that have happened today that reinforced in my mind and my spirit that there is no other way.
Firstly, I’ve been reading the last book of the Bible – Revelation. The emphasis is on the central Character of the Bible, who was there at the beginning and will be there at the end.
The second thing that impacted me today is my revision of “Who God is” – a piece of prose I once learned off by heart. I’ve been asked to recite it in a few weeks time, so I printed it out and started relearning it. Initially, I spent hundred of hours learning it, so the words began to come back to my mind quite quickly. What took me by surprise was the impact they had on me. The truths of who God is sank deep into my soul and I felt their power in once again declaring them.
The third thing about today is that it is the day on which churches across the world paused at 5pm our time to sing Amazing Grace. Mike & I sat and listened to the words of that old hymn and their truths interlocked with my soul.
There is no other way.
The grace of God that came through Jesus Christ. He is the only way to God.
John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
For those of you who read this and just don’t get it, don’t stop the search.
This is the truth: God exists. So does His Son. There is no other way.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂