Man Rebelling Against God’s Authority
By Ernest Teh
Have you ever stayed up late at night wondering about what you’re doing with your life, and feeling entirely lost? I have, and I’m sure I’m not alone either. F. Scott Fitzgerald described it this way, “In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
The truth is that most of us lead pretty empty lives. The other truth is that most of us often don’t realize it because we’re just too busy doing whatever it is we’re doing. Strip our life bare, and leave us with our thoughts (at say maybe 3 a.m.?) however, and it may finally dawn upon us that we don’t really have a clue what our life is all about. We keep filling it up with this activity and that pursuit and that goal that we have no time to stop and think about where we’re actually headed. This is the emptiness that comes as a result of sin. We have rejected God’s RULES and RULE in our lives.
Now we’re left to run our life on our own, and with our direction, nowhere is the only destination I can imagine us reaching. It’s sad how so many of us are oblivious to the fact that our soul is wandering around in the dark. But fortunately, that isn’t the end, for, thanks be to God, we have the Son who has called us out of darkness into His wonderful light.
Are we still wandering in the dark? Or are we basking in the wonder of His glorious light?
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