THE PARADOX OF LIFE

Hello family and friends. We all know that life is wonderful and we have to live it, enjoy it, manage it, and get the most out of it. However, do we really do this?

You will never know that God is all you need until He’s all you’ve got. It’s curious to see people throwing God away and then asking, “Why is the world going downhill?” What a paradox! Did you know that salvation is infinitely costly (priceless), but yet absolutely free? In the Bible, Haggai 1:5-6 says: “This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you! You have planted much but harvest little. You eat but are not satisfied. You drink but are still thirsty. You put on clothes but cannot keep warm. Your wages disappear as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes!” Why? Because we are not living lives conformed to God’s divine design, nor are we being good stewards of this first creation. That is why life turns into a continual paradox.

Some more common forms of life’s paradox which we suffer from include:

Nowadays we have bigger houses, but smaller families; more commodities, but less time; more degrees, but less common sense; more knowledge, but less discernment. We have more experts, but more problems; more drugs, but more illness. We waste a lot, but are never satisfied. We have multiplied our valuables, but lost our values. We talk too

much, but love too little. We have learned to search for life but we haven’t learned to live. We have added more years to life, but not more life to the years. We have bigger buildings, but shorter tempers; wider highways, but narrower lives. We waste more, but have less. We have gone to the moon and back, but yet we can’t manage to cross the street and spend time with our neighbors. We have conquered outer space, but not inner space (our core being). We have learned to speed up, but not to wait. We have higher wages, but lower morals. We build electronics with greater memories, but can’t memorize a thing. We have modern cell phones, but communicate less. Our lives are long quantitatively, but short, qualitatively. We’ve got more entertainment, but less fun. We have more types of food, but less nutrition. We have two incomes, but more divorce; stupendous houses, but broken homes.

Life is a chain of happy moments, not survival. So put on your party clothes. Don’t put away your best perfume, your best silverware, and your best things. Don’t let your life be a continual paradox. I think so many people fall into so many paradoxes because they don’t shun Love’s enemies: Pride, Envy, Routine, Hatred, Indifference, Individualism, Jealousy, Insecurity, Egotism, and over all, the lack of GOD.

I dare you to accept Jesus Christ into your heart and see how all of life’s paradoxes vanish before him.

With love,

                  Maria Fanny Agudelo 
10/29/2017