Our Divine Path

"We were meant to live for so much more, and we lost ourselves."

"WE want more than this world can offer."

These are two verses from a song by "Switchfoot." Doesn't that sound true for all of us. We live our lives daily and don't realize we were meant to live for so much more. When you look at the ant and watch them work it's amazing. They constantly go on the hunt for food. But that seems to be all they do. When is their play time? When do they take a vacation, or go to the ant hill mall and shop. They don't! They have one goal in mind, and that is to get food to that ant hill. They know their purpose and that's it.

Why can't this be true for us humans? Why do we venture from our divine purpose? My theory, we have emotions and feelings and want satisfaction all the time. We don't all find our divine path. We see it and walk a little bit of the trail and then go off in another direction. Finding ourselves lost and going in the wrong direction. We get side tracked by our desires and go off to another adventure. For some it's a path with a fork in the road. They know deep down what path to choose, but just don't. They keep God as far away as possible and never allow Him to exist or enter their lives.

I finished reading Max Lucado's book 3:16. He told a couple of stories about final moments of some peoples lives. One was an atheist another a Christian. These are true stories. The atheist denied God all her life and at her final moments, she kept asking, "You don't know me, you don't know me?" It's as if God had shut the door of heaven on her, she chose not to know him and he didn't know her. Scary but true. The second was a man who in his final days went into a deep sleep woke up and said he wasn't supposed to say anything to anybody about what he saw, because their were others in the room. The person who told this story said nobody else was in the room. Obviously there was, only he saw them.

Our divine path is at least acknowledging God exists and choosing to wash in the water of baptism. Our wants and our meaning in life should be found in God's work and a firm and faithful belief in him and his son. I don't want my last breath to be spent trying to identify myself to our living God. I want to go his homecoming and see all who have also been given the eternal reward.