When I find myself in public spaces where people are present in large numbers, I’m struck by how empty and meaningless the lives of so many appear to be.
I don’t want to sound judgmental or critical, but the evidence is plain. The blank expressions, the looks of sadness and emptiness. The frowns of stress and hurt. The physical ailments, sicknesses, deformities. The general lack of health, vitality and beauty. The absence of happiness except perhaps in its briefest form and its shallowest manifestation.
C.S. Lewis observed this in his brilliant work, “The Great Divorce”. The masses around us live out their short lives without joy and without hope, and amazingly, when given the opportunity to embrace hope and meaning, they reject it outright, without any consideration.
I have “B.C.” friends, that is, people I knew before I came to know Jesus Christ, who live on in that state with no intention of finding meaning besides the small, temporal things which bring them moments of pleasure: sports, dogs, motor-cycles, girlfriends, holidays, bottles of beer. They will spend long hours and all their spare money on that which brings no lasting meaning, yet stiffly and determinedly ignore that which may have eternal and profound power and consequences. They will not give one minute to listen to my testimony or argument.
Do people want to hear about Jesus? No-you can keep that “religion” stuff to yourself. Do they want to know what Jesus means to you? No they don’t. They want to tell you why their football team arouses such passion in their souls or why their newest tattoo should be so greatly admired, but they have no time to hear about how Jesus Christ has infused joy and purpose and hope to the depths of your very soul.
Do they want to hear information about the fragility and the weakness of evolution, the philosophy which seeks to strip us all of any hope or faith in our creator? No they don’t:. So far as they’re concerned, the experts have it all sewn up: don’t complicate their lives with information which other alleged experts have to answer and counter this philosophy of death. They would rather stay in darkness.
Death is indeed the chosen philosophy of the day, because that’s all evolution can bring to us. True, many people hold loosely to their chosen dreams in spite of the accepted philosophy of evolution, and without solid evidence or lasting consequences: reincarnation, enlightenment from aliens, living to “save” mother earth. But nobody wants to know that they can have eternal life through Jesus Christ:
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life (1 John 5:13).
Through faith in the Son of God we can “know” that we were born for a purpose. We can know what the meaning of life is. We can know that there is a being far greater than us and (thank the Lord) far greater than our corrupt government. We can know that He loves us, and we can know, by faith and reason, that we can have an eternally bright future-if we choose it.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 