What is life? What was its beginning? Where can one find the answers? They still escape students, philosophers, and scientists today as they did yesterday. For the Christian, the answer is CHRIST. He alone is the answer.
In godless Russia, a newspaper correspondent sat on a bench in a boulevard. Next to him was a woman reading a New Testament. "An interesting book?" he asked.
Startled, she replied: "It is a holy Book." In her youth she had been a member of the Communist League of youth, for she wanted to learn all about the origin of life, why we live, and where we go. From communism she got no satisfaction. Her questions were always ignored, but eventually the inference was that everything was material. She absorbed the teaching that LIFE was only matter, and that for her there was nothing else except vibration.
"Horrible," she exclaimed, with a shudder of disgust.
The questioner sneered, "And now from that Book you know the origin of everything?"
She replied: "Yes, now I know. Everything is vanity except the gospel of God. It is like a cool well, full of stillness. In it I find all the right answers, and it gives rest from the desires of the world."
What a contrast to a young millionaire whom we knew! He had drunk deeply at the miserable springs of this poor world. Did he thus find joy or peace? No. He ended his life on this earth by his own hand! Before doing so he wrote his own obituary: "Died: of old age at 21."
Reader, Jesus Christ is the SOURCE of life. Indeed, He SUPPORTS the life which He brings. Through His death alone His life is available to all who will appropriate it (make it their own) by faith in the once crucified but now risen and glorified Son of God.