What Do You Have When You Lose Everything?

I asked myself this question while listening to a sermon that dealt with the subject matter about when plights happen to us, there is always a reason (God’s plan). This eloquently assumes the question that even for a secularist worldview, why keep going when life throws you the most wicked curveball? Can a nihilistic worldview answer this question? I would presume not, and even holding such a view and continuing on in life would bolster my sentiment even more. Losing everything can be a subjective term, but let me define this term in a few different ways to give this more substance. The first avenue of “losing everything” could be wholly materialistic. You lived your life living for material items, and life comes at you with pitchforks and torches demanding you give up every ounce of everything money could buy. The second avenue could be your intellectual property. This by far would be exponentially worse, given the fact that being incapacitated would prohibit you from earning material items, loving another human being, and the ability to reason at all. The third and final sense of losing everything is on the playing field of spirituality. This by far fares way worse than the ones above. If we are stardust and our lives were meant to be lived like hedonists then this obviously wouldn’t apply to this worldview (spiritual). Believing this life is temporary, but living alongside a deity far superior to our kind that doesn’t revolve around time, space, and matter who created for us for a purpose, would in fact explain why we would have any sense of meaning and the reluctancy to leave this world without utilizing what God intended for us to accomplish in this life(multifaceted). Without our axiom of sustainment and creation, what, where and who would we be? So, when we lose everything, what, where and who are we? That is the question that will be answered when my time comes.

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This question cannot be answered completely by any human cogently, and for me to act as if I have the answer would be disingenuous at its core. The meaning of life has and will be debated until our conception of times runs out and the dimension unbeknownst to us is revealed and set in stone. Time only exists if there is an end, time can be created, but in order to actually live in what we call time demands an actual beginning and an end. This would be described as duality in unison with polarity. If we were to extrapolate the three points I made in the abstract above and took every single element away from the equation, there would be no life whatsoever. You would either not be created or have no sense of creation, which would in theory be the same thing as never being created. It comes down to one question, what is the Genesis and the source of your meaning? Logically speaking, human beings have evolved through millenniums of time and have yet to figure out the cure to cancer (conspiracies say it has but who knows), immortality, the ability to travel at the speed of light, regrow full functioning limbs, etc. You get the point, which logically speaking we were not made for this world. C.S. Lewis once said, “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” This desire that we all have to feel some type of void in our lives pertains to this exactly. The argument I am making is for a Deity called Jesus Christ who is also known as the triune God. For any functioning society to thrive, goodness which is only found in Christ has to be utilized, along with our knowledge of evil which is the only reason we know good from the bad. The way this takes place is if there is a morally devout and perfect being (God) instilling in us good/order along with a morally corrupt and depraved being (Satan) trying to manipulate us into chaos/sin. When we lose every materialistic, bodily function and sight of a morally perfect being, what are we? Absolutely nothing. The evidence for Christ’s existence is astoundingly bright such as the historical accuracy of the Bible, the 500 eye witness accounts that saw Jesus after he was resurrected, the martyrdom that most of the disciple’s suffered for the cause of Christianity, and the difference from every other religion is that “works” don’t get you to heaven because Christ paid the ultimate death so we could live eternally without out exhausting and failing with our depraved heart and minds. So, when I lose everything on this planet, I will have gained much more than we can fathom.

Evidence of accuracy for Bible below

Philippians 1:21: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.