What's My Story
Is There More to Life?
Mark Brost
Then I started thinking about the more important things like actually getting a college degree (which I never did get by the way). But, I wanted to get that degree so I could have a really good job or career that I enjoyed, so that I could travel and have lots of stuff (a nice car, a big house) and of course having the perfect family; a beautiful wife and lots of children or maybe just two or three. So, I pursued most of those things and realized that the things that I thought were important weren’t really satisfying to me, nor were they ever meant to fulfill my life.
You know, in the bible Jesus said, I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly. The more I read God’s Word the more I began to see that God’s plan included that we would have a full life. That’s when things in my life started to change dramatically. About this time my mom told me some pretty bad news.
I remember sitting at the kitchen table when she came home from the doctor’s office and told me that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After she explained to me what the doctor said, I was stunned as I listened and I realized that my Mom, who I love, may not be around much longer. After I sat there for awhile and it began to sink in, I went in to the next room and curled up with her on the sofa and just broke down and wept.
I don’t know if you have ever had to face something like cancer in your own life or maybe you know someone close to you that has had to go thru it themselves. I imagine like my mom they probably felt a full range of emotions that comes with having to experience something like that… from not sure how I’m going to get thru this to O.K. I can do this, things are going to get better. Thankfully things have gotten much better and she made it thru and we just recently celebrated her 70th birthday together.
The reason I share this is because it made me think about the inevitability of death that all of us face and that I didn’t have a certainty of eternal life at the time or have any idea what would happen after I died. It wasn’t until later on that I came to know for certain that I have eternal life.
The biggest difference in my life now is that no matter what happens to me today or tomorrow, I know for sure that I have eternal life. Now, for many years I didn’t know. In fact, I even learned that was the reason the bible was written. The bible says, “These things have I written… that you may know that you have eternal life”. You see, God’s not trying to hide it from us or make it confusing for anyone, He wants us to know, namely that heaven, eternal life is a free gift.