John 9:1,2,3,4,5 People who followed and had been instructed by Him asked Jesus whether sin caused the man's blindness.
An existential threat removes something useful and valuable or threatens who I am as a person. It can be a health condition or natural calamity. It can be real or not “real.” It results in dramatic changes.
2 Peter 3:10 The world chooses a coping path that doesn’t involve God. For instance, scientists and the Bible both agree that the earth will burn at some point. God has a plan for my eternity and salvation. I can include God in even an existential crisis of this magnitude.
What is my purpose? Are there others around me that are struggling with this question and feel life is meaningless? When facing this question, there are two choices:
- Decide God is not real, become materialistic, and seek for ways to ignore or make meaninglessness bearable.
- Take a supernatural leap of faith and find meaning and evidence in this new state of being.
My life purpose may be good and noble (e.g., to leave a better life for my children, leave a better world), but if this is my only purpose, God is being left out of my goals.
Life meaning doesn’t require resources and money.
John 9:19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34 Why is Jesus telling this story? He was teaching the religious leaders that He is the light.
John 9:40,41 Jesus told the leaders, “You are professing to be in light, but you are in darkness. There is sin.”
Philippians 4:9 Do I have knowledge and understanding, but don’t have an experience? When I obey God he will bring me to an experience that witnesses to me there has been a change. The experience produces the evidence.
