A Way OutSample

NO MORE HOPELESS ATTEMPTS

You know the story of the first time we looked beyond God for satisfaction. God gave Adam and Eve a perfect life, then the snake promised Eve more knowledge if she’d wander outside God’s will. Ironically, we’ve been on a dissatisfying pursuit of knowledge ever since. We can access the world’s smartest thinkers with a web search. Yet despite the information revolution, we still long for answers to life’s hardest questions. Questions like, “Where can I find meaningful life?” Temptation is the desire to answer this question outside of God’s will. Sin is the actual attempt to find the answer outside of God’s will. In his book, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis talks about that attempt.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

On the contrary, full and eternal life is the daily commitment to believe that God and His Son, Jesus, are the only real answer.

Consider: How are you trying to answer this question: “Where can I find meaningful life?” Have you fully committed to believe and live like God and His Son, Jesus, are the answer?