Life. Life is an all encompassing word. It can be confusing, or it can be laid out. Sometimes it is full of joy, and other times it just doesn't feel right or maybe it is just down right frustrating as you are here, at a university, trying to find out what to do with this thing called life. Many times life is defined by more than one thing. Life is complex, full of twists and turns and who knows what down the road. At this point, all we can do is take steps is the direction we are headed and trust God to turn us around if we are headed the wrong direction, perhaps only slightly to the right.
Live is a word associated with life. They are two different words, but they are one as well. In order to live, we must have life, and in order to make that life meaningful, we must live it. Technically, buy dictionary terminology, to live is to 'be alive at a specified time'....but to give real meaning to this word it needs action, going forth. If you look further in that dictionary, it also defines living as 'to have an exciting or fulfilling life'. Live....Life.
At this time in life, we worry a lot about how we are going to live it. Are we in the right place, studying to become the right thing? I'm I planning to live in the right place, going to serve in the right ministry? … Well, does it matter? I don't know. I know that there is a plan for each one of our lives and we are all meant for a certain purpose, but does that matter what these things are? I don't know. Only someone as big as God can know, and He is big.
Just recently, I re-started reading the Bible from the very beginning. Genesis 1. Everyone knows Genesis 1, at least everyone who knows about the Bible. Even the Jews and the Muslims have the Old Testament. God created the heavens, the earth, water, land, sky, plants, animals/mammals, and anything else their may be, and after each one He said, “And it was good.”
The Heavens. Did you know that our sun, which makes earth look like the point of a pen, is microscopic, like a pixel as some world say, in relation to the biggest star in the galaxy. Antares is its name and is more than 1,000 light years away. And this, if my memory serves me correctly, is all in the Milky Way Galaxy, after which there are many more galaxy's.
I had found this out in a video that was shown in my first Christian Studies class. In another, a video was shown where the speaker mentioned how each number mentioned in Genesis 1 is a multiple which relates to light, the galaxy, or something else in life. I don’t remember all the details, but I found all this extremely fascinating. God definitely knew what He was doing, and it all serves a purpose to sustain life, our lives and other lives in which He also created. The God that created probably hundreds upon hundreds of galaxies with stars like Antares knitted us in our mother's wombs, created each little microscopic cell and organism in our bodies and knows the amount of hairs on our heads and freckles of our faces. He created all this majesty in which He called good, and yet when He created us, He called us very good. This is just truly amazing, fascinating and all-inspiring to me. He loves us and cared for our needs, so I think He can take care of our uncertainties. Our meaning is to bring glory to His all-worthy name, so as long as we are doing that, I can tell you that is is good.
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