Yes, There is Good News 3.26.2016

I ended my last attempt at an article by quoting from the Bible, in Mark 1:1, "The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God." Somehow in the back of my mind I wondered if some of you might cringe at the thought of looking into this topic. I know that I would have tossed it aside when I was in my early 20s. That was the last thing I might have been interested in. Life was ripe for the picking, and I wanted some of this World's fruit.

But by my late 20s, with God's help, my taste buds began to change and to mature. I realized that this World's fruit was tasteless and quite bland. Let me try and explain by example: Have you ever been skiing?

The first time I tried skiing, it was in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I knew several of the employees at one slope and received a nice discount on rentals and a lift ticket. But what's a novice to do?

I was too poor (or perhaps too cheap) to afford lessons, so I headed to the "Bunny Slope," up the "T bar," and down the gentle slope without too much trouble, watching nad learning from others as I went. It must have been around the tenth or twelfth time down the beginner's slope when I started to get bored. I needed more excitement. I could go on with this story, but I have arrived at the appropriate words - "more excitement." This valuable lesson on the slopes of New Hampshire was the first glimpse in seeing we humans are never really satisfied with any level of activity we might peruse. And so we long for bigger, higher, faster, more terrifying excitement. Has anyone noticed the word "extreme" attached to the activities such as snowboarding, sky diving, sports, etc?

So what's the point? We keep pushing our desire in the hopes of finding satisfaction in our lives. And perhaps, along with me, you have noticed this World's "empty glory" just does not satisfy for long.

Let me back up a couple of paragraphs. It was in those late 20s when I began to understand that I had been missing out on the most exciting relationship anyone could ever have: God Himself. The Creator of the entire Universe wants to have me call Him "Father." This was that "good fruit" that my taste buds were longing for. This was the hole in my life that needed to be filled. This was the good news that would allow me, for the most part, to look right through the smoke and fog of bad news that seems to pervade our World today.

Let me attempt to explain . . . . stay tuned!