EXISTENCE IS A GIFT

"Existence is a Gift!" 

I heard Bible teacher Tim Mackie proclaim this truth recently and everything in me shouted "Amen!"

The tragedy of human life is that for so, so many, God's good gift of existence becomes a burden instead of a blessing.

Sometimes it is by fault of circumstances beyond our control - the time and place and family of our birth. Or genes which have gone haywire.

Sometimes life becomes a burden through our own poor choices. And the consequences which result.

But even when existence becomes a burden, we do well to remember that, as Dallas Willard writes, "the path appointed for us by when and where and to whom we were born is good, and that nothing irredeemable has happened to us or can happen to us on our way to our destiny in God's full world." (The Divine Conspiracy, p. 337)

In God's economy, redemption is always a possibility and is always close at hand.

God meant existence as a gift. A very good gift. 

And He works non-stop to reinstate that goodness for each of us, come what may.