Bridging the Gap

A few years ago I realized that I was lost, merely existing and not really aware of the direction in which I was going.  My life had become a debacle of academic peaks and social pitfalls.  The little progress, which I had felt that I had made, was repeatedly bashed and bruised by my own self-doubt.  We live in a world where our only survival has been a constant and continual recreation of ourselves.  Our senses are subjected to what seems like overwhelming stimuli.  It is easy to move to a place psychologically where we allow our own mind to set a limit on what we can be.  Depression, doubt and division are factors that we allow to encapsulate us in an inescapable bubble without much as a pin to pierce its layers. 

            In order to overcome this affliction of fear fueled by feverish doubt, I sought all manners of transcendental sources to tap into my “inner man”.  I thought that maybe if I could digress into the inner sanctums of my own self then I could find the cause of my empty feelings.  Maybe then I could remedy how I felt about the ever- evading fulfillment.  There was a time when all I did was search for answers.  I literally sat and every piece of information that came across my mind I took measures to find out where it originated, what did it mean, and what did it mean to my life.  My lot became a slate of unanswered questions.  Man’s relentless search for his purpose will ever be a cul-de-sac to nowhere as long as he searches within for the answer.  I had to find that out the hard way.  It wasn’t until after I had repeatedly looked and looked in the wrong place that I realized that the answer was not in me but rather was in the original.

Every man is wired with a consciousness of God. However, the enemy and his devices cloud that consciousness.  Who is the enemy?  The enemy is the one who planted the first seeds of doubt and division in the fertile psyche of created man.  Hence, our understanding of who we were and what we were made to be was lost in a mere moment of suggestion. The devil beguiled us.  It was pride that he dangled before our eyes.  It is the same pride that he assaults our senses with today.  The prideful thought that we could be like God if we simply eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, caused sin to rear its ugly head in our lives, and we ate avariciously of the forbidden fruit.  Educational excellence, superior social status, philosophical elitism and keen self-awareness have become the new fruits of pride with which the devil tempts us.  Many of us have become his victims regardless of our social status.  The devil is indiscriminate in how he doles out temptation and obstacles.  No man in his own faculties is more equipped to withstand the wiles of the enemy, than his fellow man.  It is only through Christ, in Christ and by Christ that any of us is able to make it day by day without falling victim. 

You might be reading this book and feel that you are a victim.  You might be reading and are not quite sure what you are.  Sometimes it appears that it is your fault and other times you are just confused.  You may be convinced that you are living right and life just isn’t fair.  If you find yourself asking questions like, Why me?  How come this seems to happen only to me?  Is there really a God?  Why am I living?  Why do we exist?  Do I have any hope beyond this existence? You are in the right place and this is the appointed time.  It is not by chance that you have chosen to read this book.  If you don’t know it by now, understand that nothing, nothing at all, happens by chance.  There is a purpose and a lesson to be learned in every experience that we have.  Also understand that you are not alone, many people are asking the same questions and many of those people you know quite well.  I am here to tell you that there is an answer to every question that you may have. 

Why did God make us so vulnerable, so easily influenced?  It was because God made us so that he could pour into us.  The fertile ground that is our minds was supposed to be ground in which the Lord would plant his gifts of talent, blessings and sustenance.  He gave us dominion over the other creatures of his creation but yet still we fell victim to the one planted seed of the devil.  We overlooked all that God had given us to pursue the impossible dream of being all that God was. 

In this book every question that you have may not be answered but I will attempt to reveal to you the mechanisms by which you can find an answer.  Much of our problem as I said previously is in the places, and ways in which we are searching for an answer.  If you are at all familiar with the Internet and World Wide Web you would know that when you are seeking answers to any piece of information you have to do what is called “a search”.  A search can be executed online o