What’s
life all about?
That surely has
to be the best question in the world – ever!
Yet why is it the
one big question most people seem to shirk away from?
The foolish man
is the one who walks through life without addressing the big
issues – and can there be any bigger issue this one! It's the
daddy of them all!
So where do we
start?
Christians
believe that the Bible is God’s word for us written down to tell
us all we need to know about life. So let’s try and understand
our life in relation to what the Bible says in 4 main points:
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1 - Life is God’s
idea
Genesis is the first book in the
Bible. The first few chapters
describe the wonder of the creation
of the earth. The first 5 words of
the Bible are the foundation for
what every Christian believes –
“In the beginning God created...”
That’s our starting point. God is
the author and founder of creation.
These 5 words are loaded with
information for us to begin to piece
together an answer for our big
question:
• It suggests that God was there at
the beginning of all things.
• It suggests that before anything
was created, God was there. That
means that God existed before our
framework of time, space, anything
seen, or anything that could be
touched.
• It suggests that God thought
through the idea of creating life.
• It suggests that God therefore
created absolutely everything as we
know it – breathtaking!!
Therefore life itself was, in the
beginning God’s idea, thought up by
him and created by him. All of
creation was orchestrated by God –
he was the creator, the composer and
the conductor all in one.
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2 – Life is given by God
Genesis chapter 2v7 states:
“The LORD God formed the man from
the dust of the ground and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of
life, and the man became a living
being”
It
was God who formed man from the dust
of the earth. Man became alive when
God breathed his breath in him.
Life was started in man by God’s
first breath and it was that life
giving breath that transformed the
bones, flesh and skin into a living
being that breathed, talked and
walked. The Bible therefore tells us
that it was God who first breathed
life into being. Life is God’s idea
and life is given by God.
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4 – Life has a meaning
Maybe you’re now thinking ‘so what?
God is the life giver and he takes
life away in his own time -
what’s the point of living?’
It’s a good question. It looks
pretty bleak for man if one day we
all face death and after that the
judgement of God. Is there any
meaning to life?
There is a verse in the Bible found
in the book of John chapter
10:
Verse 10 “I have come that
they may have life; and have it to
the full.”
Here a man called Jesus who claims
that he is the life giver and that
he brings a fullness to life – a
life even without death!
We have come to understand that God
alone is the life giver and God
alone will take life away. So who
is this man Jesus?
Life does have a meaning – the
meaning is found in Jesus. There is
hope for mankind. Don’t just stop
here at the half way house – read
on, it could be the most important
thing you read –
What’s the big deal about Jesus?
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3 – Life is taken by God
Depending upon how you look at it,
there is only one depressing fact
that I the writer know about you the
reader. I won’t probably ever know
your name, where you live, or what
job you’ll end up doing but I do
know this one thing – one day you
will die! That’s the only fact that
I definitely know will happen to
everyone who reads this – death
comes to us all. So in relation to
our big question, how important is
it that we find out as much about it
as possible.
In Genesis chapter 3 v19 we read
this:
“By the sweat of your brow you will
eat your food until you return to
the ground since from it you were
taken; for dust you are and to dust
you will return.”
There is a book in the Bible called
Hebrews. In chapter 9 verse 27 the
writer puts it simply
“man is destined to die once and
after that to face judgement”
If God is the life giver perhaps you
might say ‘so he must be the death
giver.’ Here we must understand
that death was not created by God
but is a result of something that
went horribly wrong. It is God’s
judgement against mankind for
turning their backs on him (See 'What’s
the big deal about Jesus' page
for more on this) Man has brought
death upon himself. So God in his
right judgement will take life when
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