This I Believe

Death is a part of life, and as you get older and wiser, you come to accept, if not understand that. Death makes new life possible. Without death, life wouldn’t really have much meaning. The world, and even existence in the larger logical sense is a serious and frightening place, and our actions all have consequences, it isn’t a game or a joke or a fun place for endless frivolity and do-overs, but it’s not a terrible place either. There’s a line between good and evil we all have to walk.

God may have provided a context, but man is ultimately responsible for his fate. Cancer kills, but who knows what harmful man-made chemicals cause cancer, or through whose neglect they came about? Earthquakes kill, and floods inundate, but we choose where to build. Birth defects and still births seem to be no one’s fault, least of all the one who suffers, but they too have real but unknown root causes.

No man created the world, that I know. I prefer to believe that a loving and beneficent God created it, a wonderful and beautiful earth where life can thrive amid chaos, if only at great cost and great sacrifice.

I also believe God made the ultimate sacrifice for us, giving up his earth-born son, Jesus to give us hope, to make eternal life possible, but He couldn’t come until we/humanity were ready to receive His word and He’s perhaps even risking it all for us.

But that’s the way God rolls.

~ by dobee on July 15, 2009.