We have all heard the refrains, “Why am I here?” “What is the meaning of life?” Bless our Heavenly Father, for He is about to tell us! Truly, this flesh life is nothing more than a brief interruption of our eternal existence; we are older than dirt. The Apostle James writes, What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. How brief is a vapor? About 70 years, for some 50 for some 90. In the cosmic spectrum of TIME, our lives are but a few blinks.
Whether lying in a sleeping bag gazing at the nighttime stars, or sitting on a toilet seat trying not to gaze too deeply, we have pondered those two questions at some time in our lives. Those two questions are basic to understanding our existence; they are the most philosophical, ideological or theological questions posed by mankind throughout the millennia.
“What is the meaning of life” is the complex question. Unless we are psychiatrists or psychologists, who make their living trying to answer that question, the meaning of life must be answered from our own private, peculiar perspective. Individually, we can come up with any number of meanings, each tailored to our own internal, personal belief system. For instance, an atheist might conclude life has no meaning at all, except for what they personally ascribe to it. Blank page, perhaps?
The meaning of life then, can and does have different meanings for different people; there is no one answer everyone can point to. Not so with, “Why am I here?” There is only one reason why we are here, and it is the same reason for the devout religious zealot as it is for the atheist. We are here to take a test. That’s it, nothing profound here, we exist, in these flesh bodies, for one reason and one reason only: to be tested by God. "This is a test . . . This is only a test."
Everyone alive today, all 7 billion of us, and everyone who has died before us, all 6 billion of them, have taken this test. No one is exempt from this test, save our Father’s elect (but that is an entirely different subject) and no one gets more than one shot at passing this test. We get our 70 years to pass this test and then, “For whom the bell tolls”, as Hemingway put it, sounds.
And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. Hebrews 9.27
This generation is obsessed with political correctness, so please allow me to elaborate on that scripture for the social warriors by saying, “It is appointed unto men and women to live and to die once, and then judgment will be made on you.” Who’s judging, you ask? God is. Does He have the right to judge me, you ask? Of course He does, He created you. Adam's RIB, from which God created Eve, means "the curve or the arch" in the Hebrew manuscripts. DNA. Our Heavenly Father told us plainly: All souls are Mine!
At the end of the millennial day, approximately 1,000 years from our generation, the Great White Throne Judgement will take place (as described in the Book of Revelation). Our Heavenly Father will then grant us eternal life in the new kingdom, or dispose of us in the Lake of Fire. There is no third alternative, if there were, GOD would have told us. So, as Frank Sinatra said, "That's life!"
For more wisdom, please go to my website, sataniscoming.com and click unto the page titled, "Time".
Whether lying in a sleeping bag gazing at the nighttime stars, or sitting on a toilet seat trying not to gaze too deeply, we have pondered those two questions at some time in our lives. Those two questions are basic to understanding our existence; they are the most philosophical, ideological or theological questions posed by mankind throughout the millennia.
“What is the meaning of life” is the complex question. Unless we are psychiatrists or psychologists, who make their living trying to answer that question, the meaning of life must be answered from our own private, peculiar perspective. Individually, we can come up with any number of meanings, each tailored to our own internal, personal belief system. For instance, an atheist might conclude life has no meaning at all, except for what they personally ascribe to it. Blank page, perhaps?
The meaning of life then, can and does have different meanings for different people; there is no one answer everyone can point to. Not so with, “Why am I here?” There is only one reason why we are here, and it is the same reason for the devout religious zealot as it is for the atheist. We are here to take a test. That’s it, nothing profound here, we exist, in these flesh bodies, for one reason and one reason only: to be tested by God. "This is a test . . . This is only a test."
Everyone alive today, all 7 billion of us, and everyone who has died before us, all 6 billion of them, have taken this test. No one is exempt from this test, save our Father’s elect (but that is an entirely different subject) and no one gets more than one shot at passing this test. We get our 70 years to pass this test and then, “For whom the bell tolls”, as Hemingway put it, sounds.
And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. Hebrews 9.27
This generation is obsessed with political correctness, so please allow me to elaborate on that scripture for the social warriors by saying, “It is appointed unto men and women to live and to die once, and then judgment will be made on you.” Who’s judging, you ask? God is. Does He have the right to judge me, you ask? Of course He does, He created you. Adam's RIB, from which God created Eve, means "the curve or the arch" in the Hebrew manuscripts. DNA. Our Heavenly Father told us plainly: All souls are Mine!
At the end of the millennial day, approximately 1,000 years from our generation, the Great White Throne Judgement will take place (as described in the Book of Revelation). Our Heavenly Father will then grant us eternal life in the new kingdom, or dispose of us in the Lake of Fire. There is no third alternative, if there were, GOD would have told us. So, as Frank Sinatra said, "That's life!"
For more wisdom, please go to my website, sataniscoming.com and click unto the page titled, "Time".
