For some people much of life can be described as a big yawn. It’s not that their lives are horrifically hard or painful or problem filled. It’s more like the joy of living has evaporated forever in the desert of the average life.
To be sure, life can be extremely challenging. It can be unfair. It can be excruciatingly painful in so many different ways. And as we get older, it seems the novelties which give us thrills diminish and we settle into a comfortable but mind-numbing routine which eventually ends in death. It’s a life which views religion as a drug for fools, optimism as idealistic baloney and low grade pessimism as the only casually cool option. It’s a blank stare, big yawn life. It’s an “all in all it’s just another brick in the wall” philosophy. It’s also a sure path to crushing depression.
How one views life is much more based on belief than most of us realize. It is difficult to imagine having any kind of hope if life is just a one-time existence which has no greater meaning than passing on one’s genes. If God is a human invention, good and evil subjective terms we all get to define for ourselves and death is the end, well…then life is a bummer.
But no one has to live that way. There is a hugely positive alternative to the “Big Yawn Life” and his name is Jesus Christ. Far from being the product of an ancient myth, Jesus gives anyone willing to check out the evidence good reasons to believe he is who he claimed to be and delivers on what he promises. Jesus Christ explodes the” Big Yawn Life” and turns it into a joy filled adventure. Jesus isn’t a too good to be true marketing program, he is by far the best alternative to the “Big Yawn.”
Sunday morning worship: 10:00 am