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
10/29/2017
