By: Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr.
Life is not an accident, nor is your personal being the result of chance. When you acquire this basic perspective, your life will be saturated with new meaning, in spite of the contradictions and trials it encounters on earth. Good and bad combine to make life in the world what it is!
Nevertheless, no specific moment in your human, earthly experience, whether joyful or sad, can be the determinative factor that truly defines your life, or expresses your true identity.
The Creator constructed a beautiful world in which He placed the first human couple – Adam and Eve. Through their disobedience, however, evil came to permeate the entire universe, and adversely affect many an earthly activity.
This is what robs true meaning from any person, unless the right, divine prescription is followed and the proper remedy is taken! Otherwise, one can be led into despair, as it sadly happens to several individuals!
While much good is still experienced by all human earth-dwellers, evil in its manifold ugliness does exist in excessive abundance, and frequently displays much of the devastating effects it brings, especially in the way individual lives are perennially, adversely impacted.
With God taken out of the picture, not much of anything will ever make sense in life. Everyone needs a corrected vision, and open eyes with a fresh outlook, so as to make sense of life even in the midst of so much confusion still found in this universe we occupy.
Troubles will accompany you through your earthly pilgrimage, and new and repeated disappointments you shall face on a daily basis. “The fact is that nothing is finally relevant except in relation to the true and the eternal” as author Os Guinness biblically reflects.
Although so much in life does not make sense through physical, human eyes, it is still possible that in the depths of your being you can interpret reality by utilizing divine lenses, and acquiring the perspective which God provides to all who desire to understand reality from His perspective! As the Creator, I believes He knows best!