Many people in our culture believe the universe owes us. We are taught that everything happened as a random accident. None of us had the choice of where, when, and what family we were born into. The discussions I saw in the past week in a variety of places had people agreeing that the universe owed them.
It is the other way around.
However, I did not realize this until I was thirty-three. I lived life believing in all the do-it-yourself hype and that you could be whatever you wanted to be. I was successful at what I did. I loved learning, organizing, and making things come together. It’s no wonder I held jobs as an engineer and a project manager. I never felt like I fit in anywhere, despite how well I did my jobs because I was the odd girl in a bunch of guys. A lot of anger came out in my twenties and by the time I reached thirty-three, I had become tired of the whole rat race.
I suggest reading my last two posts, Identity Crisis and Life’s Purpose, if you haven’t already because they tie in with this. Without an identity beyond a random cause and no purpose in doing whatever we think is right for us, we won’t connect to the link God put in all of us. The enemy wants to keep us distracted from the truth, so we continue to flounder around powerless and trapped. We get addicted to the distractions in order to hide an ache inside. At some point anger wells up or depression drags everything down. Life can yo-yo between the two.
Often we base our choices on the current circumstances and not on the long-term truth. Right now, I am well fed, watered and sheltered. If someone offered me the choice of a glass of water or a 1000 dollar bill, I would take the money. Now if I was out in the hot sun, had no water, and needed some to finish my journey, that glass of water would have far more value than that piece of paper money. This is how the enemy wants us to go through life thinking in the now rather than the long haul into eternity. I tried many things that proved only good for the moment. They had no true substance, and I had to keep looking for more stuff.
Now I’m a pretty logical thinking type of gal. I never thought Christianity would make sense. It did once I had had enough of everything else. God even tells us His ways are not our ways. The more I walk with Him the more sense it makes and the more at peace I am with things. Oh, I still have a lot to learn and I wander off track, but His correction is comforting. He cares about His creation, which is everything we know of.
So why did I say it’s us who owe the universe? It’s actually God, the creator of it all that we owe. He made us for a purpose, but we are a rebellious lot, wanting to do things our own way. Eve wanted to know more and be like God. Cain let jealousy win when he killed his brother, Able. And so goes humanity to this day, proving we are quite the selfish lot on so many levels. Just watch the world news and how even the truth about things is twisted, making everyone take a side and hating the other. Sometimes neither side makes complete sense because neither has a full foundation on truth. They run with a few truths that work with their desires.
None of us can pay the debt owed for this rebellion. It’s why God did things the way He did and supplied the answer with Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice. There are more proofs for Jesus existing, dying and raising from the death than anything else that happened that long ago. It isn’t just in religious texts, but secular ones of the time. I am no scholar, but I am a nerdy analytical who loves to dig deeper into things. The closer I get to knowing Jesus, the more things I see that prove we are created with purpose. The more I see things in the Bible that match science now versus what science said at the time.
Study the following verses. A loving God is wanting to bring us into true life, but He gave us free will in order for us to be able to accept His love willingly.
Ephesians 2:1-10 NKJV
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among who also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Some fun science facts to make you think about whether the Earth was created or a random accident.
Evolution cannot explain the eyeball. None of its parts had any use prior to their insertion into the eyeball and evolution is all about useful things developing into other useful things.
All elements condense as they solidify other than water. It is the only one that defies this by expanding once more at 39F. This allows ice to float rather than solidify in a way that it would build up on the ocean floors and continue to cool the Earth until all water froze.
There is far too much oxygen in the atmosphere that would have oxidized developing amino acids required for life, but without oxygen in the beginning, there would be no ozone layer to block enough of the ultraviolet light from the sun, which would have killed life. So life and ozone had to appear simultaneously.
Keep digging at creationscience.com using their online book.