Searching for a reason...

I was reading Francis Schaeffer’s “How should we then live” this morning and came across one of his many (yet often hard to grasp!) interesting points, which I quote here:

“Many moderns would rather have demons than be left with the idea that everything in the universe is only a one big machine. People put the occult in the upper story of non-reason in the hope of having some kind of meaning, even if it is a horrendous one.”

As I take a look from Mr. Schaeffer’s point of view at the “rise and decline of the western thought and culture”, I keep thinking just how dark a world it must be for those atheists who have no higher power to rely on for reason and rationality. No wonder so many turn to drugs and even suicide to escape the questions and confusion of a world that provides no answer or reason for our being.

Today, as Mr. Schaffer points out, most would rather hear the dark answers given by demons than “be left with the idea everything in the universe is one big machine”. Any answer to explain our living and breathing is better than attempting to accept all our lives the fallacy that we are only here for a reason if we make one up.

The only way to turn around this dark, atheistic way of thinking is to bring Christ back into our society; He is the only one that gives a true answer as to why we were created. Without Christ, there would be no reason to live. If you are unsure of why things happen as they do, or why you were placed on this earth, stop torturing yourself with endless questions that you can’t provide; and accept the loving instruction of the one true God: you were created by Him, and you are here because He wants to lead you in the paths of rightousness, for his names sake. (Psalm 23)

Jennifer

Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

Isaiah 45:18 For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Ephes. 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Col. 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.