"We grasp at every passing straw, and even as we clutch it disappears." --Billy Graham
"... Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God" (Matt 4:4, NIV).
"All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come" (Job 14:14, NIV).
Man without God is unfulfilled and on a universal quest for ultimate truth, meaning, and purpose. The Dalai Lama said that "Emptiness is the ultimate truth." Billy Graham says that man is the only creature capable of becoming bored. "Nature abhors a vacuum," says Billy Graham. It was Blaise Pascal who said man has a vacuum only God can fill. Augustine of Hippo likewise wrote that our hearts are restless until they find their rest in God. Man is searching for that missing ingredient and is on a frantic search for happiness.
Seek the Answerer! This is true, we can become bored with life or of ourselves, despite the environment and entertainment opportunities. That's why we have millions seeking psychiatric counsel and meds to solve their personal problems and unresolved issues. Most of man's emotional problems are basically curable by the truth, and that is one reason truth sets us free. Carl Jung, the protege of Sigmund Freud, said that " the central neurosis of our time is emptiness." We all sense something is wrong with us, regardless of faith, and are on a Great Quest (Billy Graham's terminology) to find THE answer.
Man has been called Homo divinus and even Homo religiosus, or that man is, by nature, divine and religious, respectfully, seeking spiritual answers and fulfillment, rather than a secular solution. The anthropological proof of God is that there is a universal belief in God in some manner. Have you ever observed an ape building a chapel? We alone seek metaphysical answers to physical and emotional or spiritual problems--we must realize that many so-called religions seem to work and do have an element of truth, for man seeks truth by nature (enough to inoculate from the real thing), but that doesn't mean they are true. Christianity isn't true because it works, but it works because it's true--viva la difference!
Man longs for relationships, and being in the image of God, we are personal beings seeking meaningful relationships--God is personal and wants to get personal with us! We must reciprocate and return the favor. We can try political freedom, education, materialism or higher standards of living, experiments with drugs or fee sex, but man only becomes worse off by seeking other means of satisfaction other than what we are meant for; ignoring design breaks faith with the Designer--for instance, we are hard-wired for work, not a life of leisure or pleasure seeking.
Christians need to preach that they have found it, the answers in the Answerer! The proof of the pudding is in the eating, they say! Solomon tried virtually every area of endeavor only to declare it all vanity, but his wisdom caught up with him at last and realized the only fulfillment was in doing our duty to God, obeying Him, our Maker. A square peg cannot fit into a round hole and many people are doing that, attempting to be something or do something they were not meant to be or do. If Einstein had been condemned to a life at the Swiss patent office, he might not have realized his full potential and would've had low self-esteem as unfulfilled. We must pursue our passions without discouragement and realize our calling in life.
Man is not an animal in heat, seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, despite protests that there is no right or wrong, only pleasure, and pain. We must not just follow our heart, but not our whims, we must not arbitrarily seek for needles in haystacks. Man is meant to be on a mission, full of meaning and purpose with a mind thinking the thoughts of Christ, or having a Christian worldview of the world, not to be influenced by the secularization of society, but remaining salt and light. Soli Deo Gloria!
"... Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God" (Matt 4:4, NIV).
"All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come" (Job 14:14, NIV).
Man without God is unfulfilled and on a universal quest for ultimate truth, meaning, and purpose. The Dalai Lama said that "Emptiness is the ultimate truth." Billy Graham says that man is the only creature capable of becoming bored. "Nature abhors a vacuum," says Billy Graham. It was Blaise Pascal who said man has a vacuum only God can fill. Augustine of Hippo likewise wrote that our hearts are restless until they find their rest in God. Man is searching for that missing ingredient and is on a frantic search for happiness.
Seek the Answerer! This is true, we can become bored with life or of ourselves, despite the environment and entertainment opportunities. That's why we have millions seeking psychiatric counsel and meds to solve their personal problems and unresolved issues. Most of man's emotional problems are basically curable by the truth, and that is one reason truth sets us free. Carl Jung, the protege of Sigmund Freud, said that " the central neurosis of our time is emptiness." We all sense something is wrong with us, regardless of faith, and are on a Great Quest (Billy Graham's terminology) to find THE answer.
Man has been called Homo divinus and even Homo religiosus, or that man is, by nature, divine and religious, respectfully, seeking spiritual answers and fulfillment, rather than a secular solution. The anthropological proof of God is that there is a universal belief in God in some manner. Have you ever observed an ape building a chapel? We alone seek metaphysical answers to physical and emotional or spiritual problems--we must realize that many so-called religions seem to work and do have an element of truth, for man seeks truth by nature (enough to inoculate from the real thing), but that doesn't mean they are true. Christianity isn't true because it works, but it works because it's true--viva la difference!
Man longs for relationships, and being in the image of God, we are personal beings seeking meaningful relationships--God is personal and wants to get personal with us! We must reciprocate and return the favor. We can try political freedom, education, materialism or higher standards of living, experiments with drugs or fee sex, but man only becomes worse off by seeking other means of satisfaction other than what we are meant for; ignoring design breaks faith with the Designer--for instance, we are hard-wired for work, not a life of leisure or pleasure seeking.
Christians need to preach that they have found it, the answers in the Answerer! The proof of the pudding is in the eating, they say! Solomon tried virtually every area of endeavor only to declare it all vanity, but his wisdom caught up with him at last and realized the only fulfillment was in doing our duty to God, obeying Him, our Maker. A square peg cannot fit into a round hole and many people are doing that, attempting to be something or do something they were not meant to be or do. If Einstein had been condemned to a life at the Swiss patent office, he might not have realized his full potential and would've had low self-esteem as unfulfilled. We must pursue our passions without discouragement and realize our calling in life.
Man is not an animal in heat, seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, despite protests that there is no right or wrong, only pleasure, and pain. We must not just follow our heart, but not our whims, we must not arbitrarily seek for needles in haystacks. Man is meant to be on a mission, full of meaning and purpose with a mind thinking the thoughts of Christ, or having a Christian worldview of the world, not to be influenced by the secularization of society, but remaining salt and light. Soli Deo Gloria!
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