The Concept of The Human Race

Charles Darwin grew old trying to figure this one out! photo from  wikipedia.com

Have you ever wondered why the people who sweat their butts the most are the ones who make the least money? Example; commercial drivers, the carpenters, construction workers, farmers, masons, truck drivers etc... They make the least money but labor the hardest under the scorching heat of the day, tilling the soil hoping to reap of its fruit. Their bosses on the other hand wake up in the morning and head off for a run to work up their only sweat of the day, get home and get ready for work and eventually make it into the office say at about 9 or 10am in the morning. They lie back on the swivel chair, turn the air-conditioner and the TV on and listen to CNN dish out more problems the world has, and then start off the day with phone calls and emails on the computer. End of month? The boss goes home with a check at least 5 times more than that of the guy who spent his whole day outside under the sun or in the rain. That's life! Or lets take it back to the corporate world with the bank as a case study; in Nigeria the banking industry is so huge and so demanding that no matter how much the banks pay, a lot of people would rather opt not to work in a bank if they could help it. The junior banking officer gets to work at 630am, handles customers incessant demands from 8am till 4pm in the evening (need i remind you of Nigeria's population) and leaves the office at 7, if she's lucky, she does this everyday for at least 300 days in a year: the junior marketer who's been given a target of 200,000,000million naira is out on the streets everyday looking for customers to open accounts, and worried sick about not meeting her target and possibly losing her job if not careful. And at the end of the year, the banking officer and the marketer take home a lil over 10,000USD for all their hard-work and they do so gladly that at least they have a job in a country filled with so much unemployment. Now we have the bank managers, directors and CEOs who on the other hand are caught between meetings, calls, conferences, flights across continents and the best holidays all over the world when they feel like it and who's only labor is to scream over the heads of their subordinates about meeting the company's overall target. End of year? Well lets just say it'll take a laborer on the street his entire lifetime to make what the director makes in a year!

This all brings me to the question, "what is or was the original concept behind the creation of the human race"? Were we fashioned to be born, go to schools, graduate, find jobs, work our butts off, get married, have kids, sweat to raise them to be useful in life while of course sweating to provide for them, keep sweating to survive even after the kids have grown and left home, get old and become a baby again and then die someday out of old age and exhaustion from the 70+ years of hard-work? Nah, it can't be, there's got to be more. While the stages in life listed are exciting and interesting, it can't be all there is to achieve a fulfilling life... Life has got to be much more than about the number of worldly goods attained. If it weren't so, why is it the more privileged people who tend to be depressed and even take it one step further by attempting to or taking their own lives? I mean the lives of Hollywood stars depict the example of worldly assets being insufficient for personal fulfillment and contentment; they have it all and yet their lives are filled with drugs, extreme alcoholism, immorality, divorce, depression and suicides! So can you see that amassing all the riches can never be enough for true happiness?

In my opinion, the original concept of the human race is fading. The beginning of doom for man begin with the fall of man in a certain garden eons of years ago. The true purpose and reason for which man was created "to be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it..." Gen 1:28. Man was supposed to live in a beautiful world without stress and without having to toil to eat! That's the way it was supposed to be. But then man fell and the rest is history! You and I are in a race to find our way back to our true and original domain and i don't need to mention how difficult it is to find the way. This takes my mind to the "road less traveled". This road is narrow, long, winding and filled with obstacles and trials too many to count! Someone said, that "the beginning of Jesus is the beginning of trouble"! I agree. You can't seek to the serve God and face no trials, no its not possible. You see the devil is constantly trying to distract us with the many enticing things the world has to offer; drugs, sex, alcohol, crap on TV, malice etc, so we don't remember what our true and new purpose is, which is to serve God. So the minute we somehow remember and take a 360 step to walking down the narrow road, the devil gets upset and attempts to ruin us by shooting arrows to test our acclaimed faith!

Now some question God and ask why He lets the arrows fly? It's cause that's the only way we'll prove how much we trust Him and that's the way He can show us who's in control! He's hoping you wont chicken out and walk out on the road less traveled. For you see in Christ there is actually peace (though arrows fly) for Christ has overcome the world (John 16:33).
Food for thought.........remember to walk the "road less traveled" people..its easier.

Coco-C