Bible

Life’s Answers

As a Pastor, I have often had people ask me what many would consider the deeper questions about life.
Interestingly enough, I had grown up asking questions like, “Hasn’t somebody written a book or something that tells us how to live this life ”? What am I here for? What is my purpose in this life?
As a youth I had attended Presbyterian and Episcopal Church Services. At the age of 15 however, I walked away from the church thinking that if there was a God, or some higher purpose therein, I certainly hadn’t encountered it.
When I went to college, I enrolled as a Psychology major hoping I would find purpose and meaning there. However, when I walked into my first class, the teacher stood up and began by saying, “If you came here looking for answers, we don’t have any”! My search continued on through my own studies into the metaphysical, Astrology and etc. trying to fill that void within.
Finally at the age of 19, after reading a book called ‘The Cross and the Switchblade” by David Wilkerson and a gospel tract titled “The 4 Spiritual Laws”, I found what my soul had been searching for all those years. I was blown away! I couldn’t get over it… After sitting in church all those years and never encountering Him, I suddenly realized, GOD IS REAL!!!
The little tract had told me, [1] God Loved Me (Jn.3:16), [2] God had a Plan and a Purpose for my life (Jer.29:11) [3] that only by Inviting Jesus Christ into my Life to be my Savior and Lord could I find the True Purpose and Meaning I was here to fulfill (Jn.14:6; Rms.3:23; 6:23; Jn.3:3-7; 10:9-10; Jn.1:12).
From that day until today, 42 years later at the age of 61, I can honestly tell you that Jesus Christ is ‘The Only Way’ and that there is Only One Way for All People to have fullness of Life here on earth, and to spend Eternity in a wonderful place called Heaven. Incidentally, the book I was searching for… to tell us how to live and explain the mysteries of this life, is and forever will be “The Holy Bible”! Every answer to the questions we encounter in this life and for eternity to come are found in its pages.
One last thing, not only did God give us His Instruction Manual “The Holy Bible” to instruct us on how to live successfully down here, but from the moment I/You receive Him as Savior and Lord, HE actually comes to live WITHIN US to be our helper, our counselor, our friend, our advocate. HE promises to NEVER LEAVE US for the rest of our lives, and I can assure you that this is true from experience!
So if you are trying to make sense of your life and existence here, and your ready to find the Love, the Truth, the Meaning, the Purpose, and your life’s direction that has been eluding you until today, Why not Read and act on the above scriptures? What do you have to lose? Hopelessness, Lack of Direction, Lack of Peace, Lack of Meaning, Lack of Purpose? What do you have to gain? Fullness of Life!!!
May God’s Best Be Yours, In Him… Garth