LIFE GOES ON

Is there any simple sentence more popular than the above? Someone even summed up the whole mystery of life in the above three words, "Life Goes On". We hear it, see it and experience the truism of the above statement almost each and every day in our lives.

When you get dumped by your boy or girlfriend, life goes on. When you lose either a hand or a leg through a car accident, life goes on.  When you lose both parents before or after you are born, life goes on. When all your friends reject you, life goes on. When there is an earthquake that claims hundreds of thousands of lives, life goes on. The list goes on and on. But have you wondered why life goes on no matter what?

It is pretty obvious that life does not care about the tragedies or the fortunes that happen to us in life. It goes on. So you better get along with it. The world will not stop for you just because you lost a loved one. It will go on no matter how sad or happy you feel.

In the past, this made me feel sad when life goes on normally when I experienced sad moments. I wish it would stop to share my problems and comfort me.

Now I do understand the benefits of why life goes on or why it must go on. Apart from the fact that it goes on so that we can forget the unfortunate incidents in our lives and the mistakes we committed in the past, it also goes on for a better reason.

Yes, life goes on unceasingly towards the realization of the creator’s purpose. It is the creator’s purpose that he redeems the entire fallen human race through Jesus Christ and restores paradise to mankind through His Kingdom headed by Jesus. Thus, life and the world will continue to forge ahead till the realization of this purpose and even beyond. It will continue to go on till the new heaven and the new earth are ushered in. In this sense, the world is like a vehicle in transit that is heading towards the paradisaical promise land which God conceived and purposed to be the home of man even before the founding of the world.

 The creator is itching to see tears permanently wiped off from the faces of mankind resulting from all the tragedies we encounter of which we have no clear control. He is yearning to see grief, sadness, sorrow, pain, suffering permanently replaced with joy, happiness, peace, prosperity, and eternal  life.

Are you not happy to see life go on till the complete freedom of the children of God is fulfilled? I am and I hope you are too. Let us continue to run the race of life with faith and endurance while we look intently towards the fulfillment of God’s promises particularly the one recorded at Revelation 21:1,4 which states “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more…. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away”