John 14:6
Jesus and Truth
6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Matthew 6:19-24
19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
John 14:27
Peace from Him and Not from this World
27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
Humanity has for thousand of years searched and asked about the meaning and purpose of life...We search for why are we here on earth, and what are the things that make up the universal truths in life...It seems in every man there is an impulse or desire to find out about the meaning of life...And this impulse and desire is a universal one...
One Man stood up two thousand years and and said I AM Truth...He talked about Truth quite a bit...He is the Son of God...He is our Messiah...And He teaches us that the real treasures in life are not in material things...He teaches us all about eternal things and the eternities...He teaches us about the important things in life...He teaches us about the hard questions (we have about our desires)...Jesus walked the earth to help give us and our lives a different and new perspective...To be able to spiritually walk with Him and God, His Father...And to have a relationship with Him and His Father...And in these relationships with God and His Son, to bring purpose to our lives...
C. S. Lewis had an argument for this...He gave it as evidence for God and Jesus...It is known as the argument from desire...Wikipedia sums up Lewis's argument from desire this way: Major premise: All innate human desires have objects that exist...By "innate" we mean those desires that are universal....The desire for food, the desire for companionship, the desire to enjoy beauty are innate desires in this sense...The desires to have a grand house or a PhD are not...The premise cannot be proved, but is plausible...We feel hunger; there is such a thing as eating...We feel sexual desire; there is such a thing as sex...It would be unlikely for a race of individuals to exist who reported feeling hungry yet but did not possess food, mouths nor stomachs...For every such innate desire in human experience (save one) we can identify the object...Minor premise: There is a desire for "we know not what" whose object cannot be identified...We are never truly satisfied...For even while we satisfy our hunger, our need for companionship, love, beauty, achievement, etc...The second premise aims to articulate and appeal to the concept of "longing" as expressed by the German term Sehnsucht...Conclusion: If the object of this desire does not exist in this world, it must exist in another...
St. Augustine wrote, in my opinion, this argument years earlier...He wrote in his Confessions that "Our Hearts are Restless Until They Rest in You."...This Great Saint knew and had a longing for His Creator...
It seems to me that the human mind was created to have and find purpose...A restless curious desire for Something Else...Mankind seems to want material things and expects and wants good behaviors, but when it gets them the heart is still restless...The desires all seem just cannot be filled...Something is always missing, even at the happiest points in our lives...We search and think about what is our purpose...We want to know what else is there...We ask questions and read the Bible and believe in Jesus to find that meaning...That purpose is not found in material things...It is found as we age and gain wisdom in God (and can be found out earlier, if we read the Bible and believe in God at a younger age)...The heart, as the Bible so frequently tells us, is the center place of our soul and our spiritual center (so to speak)...So St. Augustine's point that the human heart is restless, until it finds its Creator, or its Father, or its God makes sense to me...The desire to find God, and the answer to the questions of C. S. Lewis are found in the Bible...
We do seem to have a restless desire that is not of this world...We do have a desire in life is to find and be with our Creator and His Son...That is why, I think, many people turn to the Bible -when looking for a purpose, or the purposes of life...Life's meaning is not in the size of our house, or the number of cars we have, or the size of one's bank account...These are material things...The treasures we are desiring are in another world...In that world, we will not carry a wallet or purse...And in that world there will be Great Truth and have Great Peace...