Life Goes On

Lately I have been occupied with several things, often feel that time is slipping out of my hands.  Not just the time, the months, the years, and even the decades have gone bye.  The sense of belonging to a younger generation has long left me.  The role models that I had looked up to for the inspiration and strength have begun to depart and it scares me to hear someone say "you are my role model"!  When I entered the ministry, I was in my late teen years, got married in mid-twenties, and without much warning, here I stand staring at the soon approaching mountain of fifty.  Seeing our son prepare for the university compels me to finish up my last remaining school post.  When the day comes, and it has already come, when our son says goodbye for his college, me and my wife will have to begin a new beginning, new journey that we are totally unprepared for.  For the last 19 years, three of us have been the only family members we spent most of our time with.  I left my family when Christ found me, and my wife left her family the day I found her, and our son arrived two years later.  Ever since, three of us have lived, laughed, cried and rejoiced together.  Faced unusual circumstances of life together; have over come dark days and taken advantages of the bright ones together.  But now, we have come to a crossroad once again; it is still some months away, but I have already begun to feel the quietness and the emptiness in the house when he would finally venture out to find his own destiny; destiny that God has prepared for him. 

Life goes on, children get older, we get older, and I am getting older too is the song by the Dixie Chicks that describes how we are afraid of changes.  Well, I am not afraid of changes, but am just amazed and surprised at the fact that we have arrived here so soon, so without warning; it does not get to my mind that I have been married for 20 years, it feels like yesterday.  Of course early on life, I had made up my mind to live each day as it comes and I am glad that I made that decision.  Yes there are regrets too and given the chance I would like to change a few things but as a whole I would walk the same road all over again.  One thing is sure that twenty years down the road, there will also be some regrets but I determine to make fewer mistakes and make life more fulfilling each day.  Time goes on, life goes on, and once it is gone; there is no point of regrets.  The only way to avoid regrets and create memories is to live one day at time with Jesus.  

Those of you out there, if you have Jesus in your life, you have all you need to make each day a fulfilling one.  But those of you who don't know Jesus, then it is going to be much more difficult to make sense of this painful world in which there are more regrets than memories.  

My life is well spent because early on life, I found Jesus and he can make your life worth living too; he can take away all your regrets and change them into something beautiful.  Otherwise life goes on and the reality is that it is going to go on and on even in eternity either in hell or in heaven - the bitter truth.  Without Christ the beautiful life here on earth is one waste of time but with Christ, even the sorrows of this world will be traded with joy divine!  Don’t let life go on with Christ.

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When our faith meets God's compassion

Luke 8:40-56

Daejeon OEM

Bhojraj Bhatta

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Luke 8:26-39

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Facing the storms of life

Luke 8:22-25

Daejeon Onnuri English Ministry

Glorifying the persecution

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End Notes

1 John R. Willis (ed.), The Teachings of the Church Fathers (New York: Herder & Herder, 1966), 66.

2 National Church Survey of Nepal (NRRN, August 2007), 7.

3 Apology, Chapter 50.  Quoted in John R. Willis (ed.), The Teachings of the Church Fathers (New York: Herder & Herder, 1966), 65.

4 (NRRN,  August 2007), Op.cit. 7.