Today my brain has felt somewhat muddled. I can’t say exactly why this might be so. I also have a bit of a headache so I wonder if I am just trying to think too much and not do enough. I have been long toying with the idea of writing an essay on the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I don’t think that I could try to write about a more comprehensive subject thus the basis of the appeal of the idea. It would be challenging and would require a lot of time and effort. It would also be something at which I could look with immense satisfaction upon its completion. There is one fallacy in my thought and that is that it will ever be complete. The human mind is too finite to hope to completely grasp the depth and scope of the sacrifice that has been made by the one man who, through all the ages of time, lived a sinless life on behalf of all the others who have committed offenses against the eternal laws that have been laid down since the foundation of the world. Still I only want to relay my own personal pursuit of what I have encountered in my own life.
It’s funny how sometimes you just need to take a break from what you are trying to do, focus on something else for a while and then come back with a renewed energy and you suddenly find that you can go on and on from where you thought you had a roadblock. It also helps to take a couple of ibuprofen to help alleviate the headache. Anyway, I took some time to take some medication and to get some dinner and I was able to make a little bit of headway in progressing my essay.
I read another blog today by what I can only see as a very beautiful young woman. She related how she seemed to define her self esteem by being in a serious relationship. This isn’t the first time that I have seen such a situation and I was just wondering to myself what it is that creates this need from love in people. Having a knowledge of the plan of salvation that our God has for us has helped immensely in coming to what I feel is a good answer. It is my belief that we existed before we were born into mortality as the great family of God and we all dwelt in his presence as his children. (Romans 8:16) While we were there we knew of the great love that He has for us and when we were required to leave his presence to begin this time on earth we were left with the desire to once again feel that love and so we seek it almost to the point where it is as necessary as air to survive. Without knowing that it is God that is the source of this love we will look for it in those that we encounter in life, but unfortunately we, as mortals, do not possess love in the great capacity that God does. So sometimes we are left lacking and we are disappointed, hurt and may move from relationship to relationship hoping to find a constant and dependable source of love. Until we come to God it may never be found.
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