What is it that sustain us throughout in our life?
What is it that sustain us, just that we find reasons and motivation to do something continuously and passionately?
I think that this is a problem that I faced: a question of long-lastingness. Many a times, I find my passions and interests on anythings to be short-lasting, that they come and go. It is just like writing a blog, sometime I feel like writing, sometimes I don’t. Or it can be like you really really like something very much, then the next moment you lost interest.
Then I begin to question whether anything on this earth can be sustained forever. And the answer is no, because we cannot be happy forever, either can we linger in a particular time or past forever. We cannot even be with our loved ones forever, because we are still subjected to mortal physical death and illness. Therefore, nothing lasts forever.
So I realised that we are always living and pursuing short-term goals such as fame, achievements and money, these that cannot last forever. But we all thought that that’s the way it is? So let’s live a glorious life whom we will forever be remembered? Yes, because of life don’t last, we long to be remembered after we died, so that life would not be meaningless. But then no matter how glorious you may have lived your life and no matter how famous you are, people will not remember you one day. Memories cannot withstand the test of time, thus nothing is long-lasting or sustainable that we can live for. Isn’t it pessimistic?
But there’s a hope. And that’s believing in our purpose of this life, for which is given by our Creator. It is only when we believe in our creator can life take on a more meaningful and full form. Because if not, everything that happens here would be accidental, and we would not find any purpose in life.
God is the one who is long-lasting and sustainable. He is here throughout the past, present and future. Pursuing life and leaving him out of life picture would be meaningless for us to live. We will then be living for the sake of living. We will then be pursuing what others pursue, and we lose ourselves, ourselves for whom God intended us to be: to live out his purpose.
Because God is the one who last forever, therefore if we act according to his purpose for us, it’s the only way life can truly be lasting forever.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?
-Luke 9:24-25
