If we are limited . . .
. . . we should seek a belief that is limitless
Find out our limitations by watching our Truth in Two (full text below)
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FULL TEXT
History records that King Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, charged one of his slaves with a unique responsibility. The monarch instructed his vassal to awaken him each morning with these words, “Philip, remember, you must die.”
“Remember you must die” is wise advice. The brevity of life together with the longevity of death gives one cause to pause. Perhaps this idea was on the mind of George Bernard Shaw who famously uttered the line, “The statistics on death are quite impressive: one out of one people die.”
Death teaches us there is limitation to life. But there are also limitations in life. Some would suggest we can be anything we want to be. But limitations of culture, time, or place may dictate that our choices are limited. Some maintain that humans are basically good and can create a perfect world. But history records the basic limitation that all people with the best of intentions are corrupt.
If life is full of limitations then how should we live? If we are limited we should seek a belief which is limitless. The God of the Bible set limitless standards for a limited life when the Psalmist said, “I have seen a limit to all earthly perfection, but Your instruction is limitless.”
How does God’s instruction overcome our limitation? God’s goodness to us should be goodness we share with others. If there are benefits to following Heaven’s rules, we should seek to enact those benefits on earth. Our ideas of “here and now” should be based on “There and Then.” Knowing our limitations in this life is not so bad when we know God has established limitless principles for life.
Unlike King Philip, no one will be reminding us each day that we will die. But maybe we should remind ourselves.
For Truth in Two, this is Dr. Mark Eckel, President of the Comenius Institute, personally seeking Truth wherever it’s found.