We all have read or heard – “we all come into this life with nothing”… and we depart in the same state. However, what you do with your in between time makes all the difference.
Since I ascribe to the philosophy that none of us accidentally stumbles into ‘nothings’, I would have to ‘assume’ that it flows from our view and valuing of ourselves and ‘life’ that determines what happens in our in between time. Sadly, there are some people who look on themselves and their lives as… nothing. I can’t think of a more hopeless condition. But we really can’t ‘look’ at only ourselves, we need to look at the world in which we live. We need to look at our goals, our actions, our beliefs, and our lives to provide answers to a meaningful or meaningless life.
I wonder if the person who throws away their life in inconsequential activities is as bad or worse than the person who ignores their possibilities, opportunities, and potential? Actually, it doesn’t really matter since the result is the same – nothing. This is a state than would define Solomon’s vanity of vanities. But what a loss! None of us is created with no redeeming value – regardless of the inception, I believe we all are never a ‘mistake’. The mistake typically comes when we deny or ignore who we are and the miraculous gift we can be. Also, I believe we all are created to fulfill a destiny (Jeremiah 29:11).
Nothing is not a condition from birth, it is always a choice of how to be who we are in our world. We always have the decision to enhance or detract from the beginning. If our beginning was terrible, then the strength of character to go beyond is greater. But if it’s greater then that’s an opportunity for the Lord to really shine through our lives (2 Corinthians 12:9). To take the attitude that it isn’t ‘fair’ for me to be born in (fill in the blank) but you aren’t, is futility. You were and the other person wasn’t. The issue is for you to stand strong and walk into all that is prepared for you.
