This is the Way... "Therefore We Do Not Lose Heart"
The cover of a recent issue of Time magazine astonishingly declares, "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal." But the Bible tells a different story about living forever.
by John Ross Schroeder
Viktor Frankl, a concentration camp survivor, wrote a landmark work in
1946 titled Man's Search for Meaning. It shared his deeply
embedded observations on life and death as molded by personal experience
at the Auschwitz death camp during World War II.
Frankl's work is summed up with his firsthand observation as to why
some captives survived while others died. He pondered why some with good
health, intelligence and survival skills did not survive, while others who
lacked these attributes endured and lived. He concluded that the single
most significant factor for survival was a sense of a future vision—that
is, those who survived had a conviction that they had a mission to perform,
some important work to do.
Such a crystal-clear analysis of such a grim situation may sound obvious
when read in the comfort of our easy chairs. We can easily respond with: "Vision!
Uh-huh. Okay, got it!" Yet such excruciating circumstances truly did
exist—horrifying circumstances that broke men's souls and transformed
them into living zombies devoid of strength to go forward in the face of
overwhelming adversities.
So just how vital is this sense of future vision to us as we move forward
to where we are striving to go?
Contemplating the real world around us
Let's move off our easy chairs and fully contemplate our real world
that continues to move down a one-way conveyor belt leading to prophetic
intervention and divine judgment. The Bible clearly underscores the reality
that our world has been held captive by the sway of an aggressive spiritual
regime since the first man and woman made a fateful decision to reject God's
sufficiency in the Garden of Eden. A struggle for existence has ensued ever
since. The first prophetic words related in Scripture speak to this struggle
coupled with assured victory. God told the serpent in Eden, "I will
put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel" (Genesis 3:15).
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