And so He did. Our orders are no different. So the work we do is our way of earning opportunities to share the good news, and the government we support, we support only for its usefulness in helping us set up the Kingdom of God. Most of us are at a turning point in life. God Himself has so ordered the world that the command He gave us to subdue the earth, has dropped with an echoing thud into our trembling palms.
Some people throw it away like a hot potato no one wants to be left holding when the music stops.
Some, arrogant and blind to their own impotence, see the world as their oyster, theirs for the taking, a handful of mush to be molded into whatever they think it should be. And some, intoxicated with the pleasure and entertainment culture of today, knowing that you only go around once in life, grab for the gusto, regardless of where it leads them or their hapless children. But whether we shove it away, or seize it like prey, or turn it into play, it is ours and ours alone. Generations ahead of us, if this world lasts long enough, will look back on ours with praise or derision, proud of us, or pained by us, because what we do with our lives matters. Because, all along it was not home, cohorts, callings, sweethearts, or even our country, that helped us keep going.