"Today's Sunday Sermon"

Sitting around the table with friends recently, the question was posed to me:  “If you did not believe in God, in life after death, in heaven or hell, would you live your life any differently than you do now?”

Food for thought, the question sent me into the recesses of my mind.  Initially, I found it difficult to answer, as I know what I know, live as I live, with the presence of God an absolute in my daily life.  It is impossible to separate Him out, to remove Him in considering that hypothetical situation.  The truth is that I could not live without that belief, that knowledge, without Him.  How does one remove the DNA from one’s being?  He permeates me and my life that thoroughly and that completely.

Good, not evil.  There are many who live their lives in a decent, honorable manner with no intent to bring harm to others.  Good people, with  no consideration for a faith and belief in God.  That they differ from me in that respect is not cause for judgment. I am simply unable to think or live that way.  It is as unfamiliar and impossible to reckon as if I were to speculate life in the jungles of South America.  

"There are two sides to every story."  Hearing and knowing both sides of a position or incident is common in my life, so it was a given that I would present a counter to that question.  I asked:  “If you knew—and I mean KNEW—that you had been created for the purpose of having a friendship and relationship with the One who created you, and the life you live is a result of that relationship; that ALL things are spiritual; that at the end of this physical life you come face to face with Him; that death is only an end to one dimension and the beginning of the next one; that you are created an eternal being and physical life is the short-term, not the long-term---would you live your life any differently?”  

This I know to be so:  Life is SO much larger than what we see and know with our physical eyes.    

Food for thought.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end."