You are not alone

In Christianity, all of life has worth in the highest degree because all of life takes on meaning: the bitter as well as the sweet, the wins as well as the losses. Whether he wins or loses, the Christian knows from the mere fact of playing the right game with all his might that the final outcome will be a win to end all losses. This is why Saint Paul could say of the church: " For no one of us lives, and equally no one of us dies, for himself alone. If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Whether therefore we live or die, we belong to the Lord" (Rom 14:7,8) This is the testimony of a man who found the highest degree of value and satisfaction in both living and dying! And why? Because the game he played was "for the Lord." Think, then, of how it must feel to be trapped in a game that finally has no purpose, no meaning, no importance:



Dont be Discouraged, Charlie Brown," Schroeder tells him. " These early defeats help to build character for later on in life." "For what later on in life?" asks Charlie Brown. "For more defeats!" replies Schroeder. Charlie Brown then invests in five cents' worth of Lucy's psychiatric help. At first her advice sounds a bit more sophisticated: "Adversity builds character. Without adversity a person could never mature and face up to all the things in life!" "What things?" he asks. "More adversity!" she says. Is this all there is to man's existance: facing adversity with "maturity" and then - nothing? Are we really alone in a meaningless universe? Is there finally no one who even knows about our defeats? Is God dead? The Christian hardly thinks so. In speaking of a series of drawings he did on the subject of security, Schulz put it this way: "Perhaps the way I feel about God is best told in this last cartoon of that series. Linus is kneeling with arms on his bed, and the caption reads, ' Security is knowing you are not alone." And how does the Christian finally know he is not alone? Again, we will let Linus speak:



So do u trust that this friend is always there beside you all the time?