Terrence---Things we do not understand often seem pitiful.
The Cross of Christ appears foolish to those walking outside
reality.
When all the noise and hurriedness of your life is put aside,
you must face your lack of peace, quietness. At those times,
your heart testifies to your emptiness and your sinfulness.
Even the empty words of Zarathustra, Aristotle and Milt
cannot dispel the horrible realization that you are lacking.
Altough we can at times deceive our minds, we cannot decieve
our hearts. They continue to speak the truth softly. Its as
we have a co-conspirator within our hearts acknowledging the
truth even as we deny it with our minds and mouth.
Your heart tells you that you are incomplete, your heart
tells you that you are a sinner in need of redemption.
This is the internal witness God gives every man. In
the day of judgement we will be without excuse.
In my youth, I also tried the road that you have taken and found
it wanting. It leads to greater and greater darkness. Nietzsche
also tried that dark path but the darkness of his "brilliant intellect"
blinded him to the utter darkness of his path. At the end, the darkness
consumed both him and his dark light.
Terrence, Christ has already pruchased for you the perfection that you long
for--you need only accept it.
You have been brave and have tried formal and dead Christianity and found it wanting.
You have been brave and tried many of the other dead and empty religions and
have failed to find righteousness and peace.
Now, I invite you to be brave and try the power and the simplicity of the Cross of Jesus.
It is the answer to the yearning of your heart. Come to that Cross as a little child
you will learn the reality that your heart seeks.
Remove the crown from your head and give it back to its rightful owner--
Jesus Christ your Lord.
THE WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS PEACE
THE EFFECTS OF RIGHTEOUNESS ARE QUIETNESS AND ASSURANCE FOREVER.
Emile |
