The year 2020 was a perfect view of both past, present, and future. That one year it was a time of reflection of the days gone by and the view of the hell of this one pivotal year. We all have our views of the source of evil we were living in. And the future, of course, is always unknown and for that we should give thanks because if we could know the future, we may very well find another way and a road more to our liking. But in the end of contemplation, we know it is a Cup we must drink. A poison Cup that follows a life that was so sweet in our youth. A simpler life because we had not yet been exposed to the realities to be learned of our sinful nature. It is a rude awakening to view the purity of youth lost.
It does not take a genius to know right from wrong, but rather it takes indifference and a hard heart to turn from or ignore the truth so obvious and bask in denial which is a tool of the devil so we can sin without remorse. In some ways it is like the year 2020 was the demarcation point between the beginning and the end.
It can be characterized as sitting on the Teeter totter of life, where we are on opposing sides. It is a terrible ride, but it gives us the opportunity to view the middle of time as the present – one end is the past and the other is the future. For a brief moment we are suspended in time as we rise and fall with the weight of the disasters of our condition placed squarely on our shoulders.
In this present world we should still experience the darkness of night turning into the light of day but strangely it is still dark. It all seems like a bad dream and a continuing saga of huge evils that have suffocated the light of hope.
But then the sun also rises and will be granted another day to decide if we can overcome the circumstances of life’s fragile flow. But our path is like a suicide in slow motion. The blood is draining into the water of our suicide and we are helpless to resist the tide and winds of inevitable change. So, we trudge along step by painful step in a perpetual nightmare of traveling, (being LED) down the wrong Rd but as the road narrows, we have less and less ability to find a place in which to turn around – to turn back to a better place we once knew and that we could see some hope of revival. Strangely we can even smell the springtime fresh air and touch heaven from the Misty memories of a place we can never return to.
From the center of time, we look back to seek an understanding of why and how we have gone so far afield so wrong in such a short period of time.
So, what of the future? Why should we think change or repentance is there when it is not here and now in the present? How can we expect it in the future in spite of the fact we are going even further down a wrong path of travel? Can we expect the next generations will be granted the reprieve from the sins of the past? After all it was not of their making. But no, it is not possible for our progeny to escape the pains of past and their own inevitable indiscretions and wrong decisions.
At the end of the day and in the final analysis we have lost our moral compass and we are suffering from being lost and alone in a cluttered world. We have gone from Adam and Eve to Adam and Steve. We have gone from a time of faith to a time of folly. We have gone from a time of great joy at the birth of a new life into our world to the sin of murdering babies.
One has to wonder where and when we began to stumble and lose our balance. Some even say it would have been better that we had never been born than to fall into the snake pit of our own making. Yes, we are imperfect beings but should be smart enough to stay true to our higher calling and avoid casting out God and thus the moral principles proven to never fail us. Doing so has accelerated the downward spiral we are caught in. Thus, our life loses the luster we once knew.
So, the future? Well hope springs eternal for those of faith and is the only hope for us to feel the warmth of the morning SON. It is our faith in God’s word that is the glimmer of light that promises the darkness of now will be extinguished by the light of tomorrow. Friend Richard reminds me often “life is not a walk into the setting sun, but rather a journey into the loving arms of God” that gives us hope. We have been so lost, but life follows with or without us. And we cannot know the outcome for those who follow us.
It is important for me and you to recall that if we die tonight people of faith will be walking with the Lord and if we do not die tonight, he will be walking with us tomorrow.
Whatever our loss, life in the hereafter is the promise of God and that is a win. When we decide to seek and find God little else matters. That is why I say there is a Life After Loss.