The Easy life
If a greater power told you that you could have an easy life and get by (and could deliver), what would your response be?
Most people would probably say they want that. After all, who would prefer a demanding life to a more casual one?
As these blogs relate to looking at things differently, this blog comes with the perspective of overestimating the easy life . (This might sound odd to most people).
Let us assume a higher power ordained that you could get by in life with almost no effort. This probably sounds good to most people on the surface. After all, having a life of little anxiety, such as not paying bills or the necessity of work, sounds quite inviting. This could improve your health (physical and mental) and give you time to do what you wanted to before. For the short term it might seem like what you only dreamed of.
What happens in the long run, though? What happens after the novelty wears off and you evaluate where you are and why you get up in the morning? As mentioned in a previous blog, Is There Any More Than This , the wise King Solomon in the Bible concluded this life to be:
"Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless ."
- Ecclesiastes 1:2
He, of course, was speaking of meaninglessness without God in the picture. In the Gospel Of John Jesus is claimed to have said:
"I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
- The Gospel Of John 10:10
It might take some people a lot of years and experience to understand the difference between fleeting happiness and fulfillment. If you want short term fleeting happiness, then the world might offer this to you. However, fulfillment involves much more and for the long term.
Fulfillment involves more than pleasure. It is being able to get through the downs of life, realizing that there is much more going on than you see. It is not being negatively affected by the circumstances in life. It is knowing you are working toward something and that mistakes are inevitable. It involves thinking you are part of a larger chain of events, even though you don't understand how. It is knowing you are one part of an ordered universe on a journey. And, also, it is the thought that what you call your life now is temporary, and that there is much more.
God gave you the choice and does not want to force it. Which do you want?
