More than what we see

When I look around at a physical world of decay and destruction, marked by disappointment and sorrow, I have to ask, “is this all there is?”

Modern day philosophers tell us that meaning is found in what we see around us. That the natural world is all that we can ever hope for.

But for me,  this is no way to live a life.

Robert Jastrow ,the founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, made this powerful statement:

“The theologians have always accepted the words of the Bible; in the beginning God created heaven and earth…But for the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

We spend so much time running from the logic of God. He fashioned and made us. He designed us so that we would have a longing for him. In our pride and hopeless logic we have tried to create answers apart from him. These answers will only lead us to the junkyard of hopelessness. They end up like broken trucks; mere aging, rusting machines.

The answer is live for the transcendent — beyond the pale of this existence. There are indeed answers to be found to every question. And the answers are not found in man, in our learning, or in our puny little lives.