Is there more to life than what we can see?
More hope? More purpose?
What is this existence all about, anyway?
Sometimes people immersed in the Christian faith are just that: immersed. They can only see their pool of participants and begin to believe that life is staying cocooned with like-minded Christ-followers.
It seems a waste that Jesus journeyed to a humiliating, excruciating death and a glorious and overcoming resurrection to watch us bask in a pool with each other as believers.
Jesus didn't do the work of the cross just for us--He did it so we would go on our own journey to reach out to others in love. We model His life-giving hope when we just love on people, entering their world, listening to their story, simply being there to shine the light of friendship. Then drawn to our kindness and interest in them, these others might ask where we get our hope. In whom do we find our life's bearing?
We have discovered how to find the more meaningful picture of life. It is the investigation of God and Jesus and what happens after we die. But if we do not do the work of artfully selling it to others by loving them first, then it seems the story dies with us as we cocoon with other believers, patting ourselves on the back for what we know.
Love others into finding the more.
