More to life than this

A person kills himself. A person kills herself. There’s an epidemic of persons for whom life holds no promise, and they decide it’s too painful, and decide to leave.

Why is there no promise in their lives? Is it because they have no knowledge of the God of promise, who aches to heal them of their pain?

“Pah,” you say. “If there were such a God as that, there would be no pain.”

How little you understand. Pain is God’s gift to you to know there’s something wrong. Sometimes it teaches you to avoid danger. Sometimes it teaches you to understand. But if you refuse to learn, then it is merely an obstacle to be overcome.

And if you cannot overcome it? You must quit trying, eventually.

There is great pain in not knowing there is more to life than “this.” God created us to know the joy of himself and share it with him. This world can’t fulfill that desire to know God. When one “arrives” at the top of the world and finds nothing there to satisfy his thirst for God, not knowing the end for that thirst, believing that’s all there is, can’t find a reason for the pain of it, the loneliness inside is too much.

The world with its mouth full of apple seeds denies the tree of life, and denies it to others as well, being full of unbelief.

O, God, forgive our ignorance! DAPHNE BEREND

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