What is life? What was its beginning? What is its meaning? Where can one find the answers?
The answers still escape students, philosophers and scientists today. For the Christian, the answer is CHRIST. He alone is the answer.
In Russia, a newspaper correspondent sat on a park bench. Next to him was a woman reading a New Testament.
“An interesting book?” he asked.
Startled, she replied, “It is a holy book.”
She went on to explain that she had been a member of the Communist Youth League, for she wanted to learn all about the origin of life, why we live and where we go. From communism she got no satisfaction. Her questions were usually ignored, but eventually she understood the theory that everything was material. Life itself was only matter—a simple matter of biochemistry.
“It was horrible,” she exclaimed, with a shudder of disgust.
The questioner sneered, “And now from that Book you know all about everything?”
She replied, “Yes, now I know! Everything is vanity except the gospel of God. It is like a cool well, full of stillness. In it I find all the right answers, and it gives rest to my heart.”
What a contrast to a young man who “had everything” in this world. Instead of drinking from the “cool well, full of stillness,” he drank deeply of every pleasure that money could buy. Did it bring him joy or peace? No. He ended his life by his own hand. Before dying he wrote his own obituary: “Died of old age at 21.”
But, Jesus Christ is the source of life. Indeed, He supports the life which He brings. Through His death alone, His life is available to all who will make it their own by faith in the once-crucified but now-risen and glorified Son of God.