Website owner: James Miller
Life is, in a very profound sense, a solitary journey. We are
all alone the most of the time. We are alone with our own
problems. We are all souls picking our way through a
complicated, deceptive, treacherous world. A world of lie and
deceit, injustice and cruelty. Even those closest to us are
foreigners. No man really understands us and few care. Only
God knows, understands, and can help us. We each have our own
unique set of abilities and inabilities, strengths and
weaknesses, our own set of life circumstances. Each of us has
been dealt a hand of cards. We must each play the hand we have
been dealt. We must each look to our own needs, our own good.
We can trust no one else to seek our own good. We all make our
own choices, choose our own paths. We react, we respond, we
act, we do. We make our judgments, we decide, we choose. We
develop attitudes, outlooks, values, habits and kinds of
conduct that will come to characterize our lives. We choose
our friends, we choose our ways. And, in turn, life gives us
back the consequences of those choices that we have made, those
ways we have chosen.
Life is a game that we each must play on our own. A wise man
knows that honest friends in this life are few. And no friend,
no matter how much he cares, can solve our problems for us.
God alone can help us. To find our way we need God's help. We
find that help in the Bible. And we find it in reflective
thought. In our own reflective thought and in that of others.
The truth lies in the way laid out in the Bible. There we find
the basic principles for living life. There we find that great
secret to happiness: fear of God and living by his law.
Jan 2008
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