Follow Me
What does life add up to?
Were our successes real, and were they worth the trade-offs? Having gained a whole world, however huge or tiny, have we sold our souls cheaply and missed the point of it all? As Walker Percy wrote, “You can get all A’s and flunk life.”
The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote
in his Journal, “The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wants me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.”
Os Guinness writes, “The trouble is that, as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.” He argues that the purpose can only be found when we discover the specific purpose for which we were created and to which we are called. Answering the call of our Creator is the ultimate why for living the highest source of purpose in human existence.
In Ages of Faith, Alexis de Tocqueville observed, “the final aim of life is placed beyond life. “‘Follow Me,”‘ this is what Jesus said two thousand yeas ago, and He changed the course of history.”
Excerpts from, The Call, Os Guinness
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