Finding Meaning and Courage in Holy Week

American Thinker.com ^ | April 10, 2022 | J.B. Shurk

[Kaslin]

Along with Christians around the world this time of year, I find myself thinking about Christ's crucifixion. Struggling to understand His sacrifice for our sins is an important part of comprehending our human relationship with the Almighty.

We are made in God's image, so within each of us is something divine. That which is divine is infinitely complex and eternal, yet we are bound by relatively simple, finite lives. I think this struggle between what is temporary and what is immortal causes deep conflict within us all, and we feel that conflict daily as we struggle with good and evil, virtue and sin.

It occurs to me that becoming spiritually or intellectually overwhelmed leads to a sense of meaninglessness and denial of what is true. When humans comprehend how large and old the universe is and how small and short the life of any one man is by comparison, some deny any meaning in existence and deny man's connection to God. They become atheists not because God has been disproven, but because their sense of being overwhelmed collapses their sense of any meaning in this life.

But God is unknowable in a complete sense in this world precisely because His works are infinite and our physical lives are not. Being overwhelmed by His design is natural, and to deny meaning because of His infinite creation is to learn the exact opposite from the lessons He provides. In a world saturated with meaning for us to absorb, to deny meaning in this life because one is not the center of all things is not a repudiation of God's existence; it is a tantrum in response to clear proof that one is not, in fact, God.

[duckman]

Thanx for posting Very inspirational.

[lastchance]

I needed to read this. Thanks.