Faith is a continuum.
As I’ve gotten older, I often have those kinds of thoughts. And not necessarily just about people I know personally. Sometimes I wonder about the whereabouts of complete strangers.
When I look at a silent movie and see a cast of hundreds, I wonder. These people, whose existence was recorded for a few seconds on a piece of now-neglected film, did they reach all the goals they had set for themselves? Where did they go? Did they hope to be discovered? Were these few seconds before the camera their only claim to fame? I wonder what happened to them.
It is one of the sorry marks of this sinful world that people forget. Those people who win an Academy Award this year will, a century from now, be almost entirely forgotten. Political leaders that are acclaimed by thousands will, a few generations from today, become a footnote in the history books. We forget. Even those people who were once important to us, who were our friends and confidants, slowly slip from memory.
In contrast to our short-term memories, we are blessed to have a Savior who never forgets us. Even though there are billions of us on this planet—even though we may be ignored and forgotten by everyone else— Our Creator remembers us.Do you have pain? He will help you carry it. Do you feel alone? He will never leave you or forsake you.
Faith is a continuum. We all fall on that line wherever we may fall, and by attempting to classify, and rigidly classify, ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating the semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious. That is, that we are all trying to decipher life’s big mysteries—Where did we come from? What happens when we die, where are we going? What does all of this mean? And each of us must follow our own path to enlightenment
When I look at a silent movie and see a cast of hundreds, I wonder. These people, whose existence was recorded for a few seconds on a piece of now-neglected film, did they reach all the goals they had set for themselves? Where did they go? Did they hope to be discovered? Were these few seconds before the camera their only claim to fame? I wonder what happened to them.
It is one of the sorry marks of this sinful world that people forget. Those people who win an Academy Award this year will, a century from now, be almost entirely forgotten. Political leaders that are acclaimed by thousands will, a few generations from today, become a footnote in the history books. We forget. Even those people who were once important to us, who were our friends and confidants, slowly slip from memory.
In contrast to our short-term memories, we are blessed to have a Savior who never forgets us. Even though there are billions of us on this planet—even though we may be ignored and forgotten by everyone else— Our Creator remembers us.Do you have pain? He will help you carry it. Do you feel alone? He will never leave you or forsake you.
Faith is a continuum. We all fall on that line wherever we may fall, and by attempting to classify, and rigidly classify, ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating the semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious. That is, that we are all trying to decipher life’s big mysteries—Where did we come from? What happens when we die, where are we going? What does all of this mean? And each of us must follow our own path to enlightenment
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