In modern psychology and self help, I'm my greatest asset. Truthfully, I'm my biggest problem. Jesus knew that.

Christianity was the shattering of a lie, a glass house prison where everyone was telling me what you see is what you get! While materialism had all the benefits of rationally appearing to be true, it was at the same time the most diabolical lie, by exclusion. The elephant in the room was God. Everything in my head was screaming foul but at the desk they could shame me & describe with such precision the bottom line of materialism, the profit motive, that I felt guilty for even asking why.

As much as any secular atheist or new ager wants to claim how wonderfully loving humans are, and how things are getting better everyday, the evidence points in the opposite direction.

There is great love in the God who calls us by name. A God who pursues humanity as it flees from him. There is great pity and compassion in the God who comes to Earth to save his people. There is great beauty in the stars and the sunsets and the green forests and blue oceans crafted by the architect of all life. There is incredible rational law and mathematical genius in the workings of the universe and the laws that govern it's functions. Built by the genius mind of our maker.

One of the things that I've come to deeply appreciate about Christianity is it's uncanny ability to pinpoint the truth. And it's the very unpopular truth. Let me tell you a secret: I love being on the side of the undesired truth.

80 or 90 years on this broken fallen sin planet will seem like the blink of an eye as we spend eternity with the Lord, face to face. After say, 10,000 years of peace and incredible joy with God the Father, we'll probably think back on those 80 or 90 years that we had, and be so very thankful that someone told us about Jesus. We'll probably be so incredibly thankful that our hearts were softened to the message of eternal life. We'll be so thankful that we chose to plant seeds for eternity.