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Someone has said that “life” is what happens while we are making other plans. Said another way, our history began one second ago. Thus, every generation learns that time really does “fly.”
There is also another universal phenomenon associated with the aging process, which includes some form of the expression, “I declare the older I get, the busier I get.” ‘Olé man time at some point will say to you, “You’re not busier, you’re slower.” Then we might repeat that often-used phrase, “If I had known then what I know now, I would have…”
Those of a younger generation may, at this point, begin to discount the value of this article in their daily lives. Those of the older generations will smile, chuckle and maybe think, “Oh, how right those thoughts are.” The aging process has the tendency to move us from thoughts and actions that are temporal in nature to thoughts and actions which are spiritual in nature.
The aging process also engenders deeper thoughts about the purpose of life and a greater desire for peace in this life.
It seems to me that the best hope for peace in this life has its foundation resting on the Judeo-Christian belief that God lives and loves us as His children. Christian theology teaches that our brother, Jesus Christ, condescended to come to this earth and teach us, by example, the difference between good and evil.
His message to us, His brothers and His sisters is profoundly simple, “Come follow me.” He instructs us, who may be “heavily laden,” to come unto Him and He will give us rest. He promises us peace, even in all the Monday morning storms of life.
Additionally, Christian theology teaches that Lucifer rebelled against our Father and our brother and has been cast out of Heaven to this earth and is here to tempt us to follow him and do that which is evil. He is the father of all lies and wants us to be miserable both in this life and everlastingly miserable in the next life.
Further, we are taught that Jesus, who has atoned for our sins and suffered for our pains, afflictions, and infirmities in Gethsemane and again on the cross, gives us the agency to do good or to do evil. He will not force us to do good and He will not force us to not do evil.
We are free to choose.
Lucifer, on the other hand, will bind us with the heavy “chains of iniquity” and force us to follow him. So, reduced to the simplest facts, good and evil do exist. In reality, we have lived to see the day when “men call good evil and call evil good.”
What will we do and what will we teach our children to do? Will we one day say, “If I had known then what I know now, I would have…”
First, we must realize that, “…we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Eph. 6:12
Lucifer is the master of deception and he is boldly working overtime to convince men and women “in high places” to challenge the most basic tenets of human existence. There is nothing more basic than gender. There is no more basic human institution than marriage. There is no more basic human organization than the family. All these are fundamental elements of Christian doctrine and they are under attack.
We, the people, should teach each other and our children to “come follow Him.”
