So tell me… why is the sky blue?
What is the purpose of life?
Why are we doomed to sit and stare at the ceiling when the stars are out?
What’s the deal with Ke$ha?
Is is always this hard to continually pursue a relationship with God?
I know this seems like some pretty big questions, and they are, I don’t want to discount that, but, do they really matter? I’m not sure at this point. I mean take the “what is the purpose of life?” question… Everyone asks it, but what is the point of asking it? Shouldn’t we just live with purpose even if we don’t know the general purpose? A few years ago Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in Saddleback, CA wrote The Purpose Driven Life and it became one of few Christian books in recent years to become a New York Times Bestseller. Why? Because there are millions of people out there who want to know the purpose of life, even though that is in no way what Rick Warren was talking about. He was talking about living your life with a purpose. And that purpose is probably not the same as your neighbor, even though we tend to want cookie cutter answers. Why is that do you think? I’m not sure, but what I can tell you is that there is a purpose of life. It is to bring glory to our Creator by being what He created us to be. But that doesn’t fly in our mainstream culture, so we keep looking for that cookie cutter purpose.
What I’m trying to figure out is why we as a culture seem to disregard what is so obvious. Why do we have to continually look for something deeper when the answer is right in front of us? I have no idea. And I wish I could tell you, but I can’t. To me, some things are so clear, but are blatantly disregarded by out culture.
There are so many mysteries out there right now. SO MANY! I just don’t feel like most of them are worth the struggle. One is, and that is how do I praise and glorify my God every day? I want to. So, how can I when I mess up every day, multiple times a day? It’s a mystery to me that He still loves me. That Jesus still covers my sin by His death of the cross, and that we are not expected to do anything other then our best to praise our God.
So, tell me, what is your unanswered question? What is your mystery? Maybe we can help each other out on these, because so many of us have experience that others may not. And together we can learn.