And this is not one lazy or presumptuous man’s idle declaration. God himself promised this ultimate sharing in his Godhead. If man has earned it. Remember, man, thou are made to the image and likeness of your God!
And because of this, man abundantly blessed ought with dogged determination and resolve to perfectly tailor his life toward this end. Marshall all his efforts and resources to guarantee that in the fullness of time, he gets to his place of destiny.
Well and good. But is man on the rightful path toward his anointed end?
As a species? No earnest observer of humanity collectively adjudicating his temporal journey could consider the human condition in a positive light. Many could say that man has instead retrogressed, to a time beyond the coarse and crude milieu of an Abel and Cain.
Consider the hate, the chaos, the anarchy, the willfulness, waywardness, etc., man has flagrantly exhibited toward his own kind and to Nature.
Nations willfully try to destroy other nations whether in actual war or in stealth subterfuges. In their politics the order of the day is hate and loathsomeness, and falsehood and cheating as the weapons of choice to bring down opposing ideologies. Even in the realm of religion we are witness to the debauchery and willful negligence of high-echelon members of the clergy toward their appointed tasks as shepherds of their flock. Friends and families loudly alienate themselves from each other because of detestable and unruly rhetoric, using such caustic and harsh language to express their anger, intolerance and hate. It appears there is no segment and sector of society or civilization that has not been tainted with the cupidity and mendacity of man.
Is there any deliverance from this, here on earth? Or do we need to sojourn first to the land of mist and mystery before we can attain the reward for whatever goodness and righteousness we may each individually have gathered and attained?
It appears that culling from the ample history of man, these same worrisome periods in man’s journey just keep on revisiting, from unbridled cycles of ups and downs, and back again, each time not only not learning lessons from the previous, but the willful acts of banality and malevolence ramping up in degrees.
So what is the endgame for man?
Extinction? With a new and better species to take his place.
Why not possible? Natures seems to favor this kind of a resolution, in the lower species.
But born with a nature both hardy and stubborn, I for one refuse the see the inevitability of this doom and gloom. Somehow, that inscrutable Mind up there will think of a way. He just needs our attention and cooperation.
So, empty your minds and soften your hearts, deliverance is always nigh.
Claim the promise of a foretaste of eternity right here on earth.
