The typical: human life cycle - you’re born, you grow up, go to school, get a job, get married, have children, grow old and die. The next generation follows the exact pattern. Basically, we come into this world just to live a few miserable years — 70-80 at most —only to die! What’s the point? No matter what our social, financial, religious, racial status is while we’re alive, at death we all return to were we originated — dust. Nothing you have can extend your lifespan drastically and nothing you own can eliminate the inevitable. To make things worse, we’re not born in a paradise that might have made our short lives enjoyable. In fact, we are plopped into the exact opposite conditions — wars, food shortages, economic crises, crime, and the list goes on and on. Did God create us to suffer for His own amusement?

On the contrary, God is a god of purpose — everything He does has a specific place in his plan and everything and everyone is here for a reason. What is that? Well, let’s go back to the beginning where everything started — the Garden of Eden. According to the Bible, God first made the earth habitable-separating the land from water, night from day, causing vegetation to grow before creating animals and then finally creating the first human in His own image. Looking down at His work He said with a smile “all is good”. He gave Adam and Eve domination over beast and the responsibility of caring for their new home and expanding it’s boundaries until the whole earth was a paradise. And the prospect of everlasting life! Can you imagine living in those circumstances? Yes, everything was perfect-plenty of food, satisfying work, beautiful surroundings-a paradise!

We all know what happened next-our first parents disobeyed the only restriction put on them and sinned thus condemning themselves and all their descendants including us to death and losing their chance of perfect life in a perfect world. Does this mean we have no hope of ever experiencing the life our first parents once had? On the contrary, God’s purpose never changes; he wanted us to enjoy life in a paradise and still does. In the near future, after ridding the world of wickedness and its source— Satan — the world we live in will be transformed into its original splendor and humans gradually attain perfection.

Then the question arises: why? Why is this wonderful transformation delaying? Is God waiting for the human race to exterminate itself before acting? How much longer do we have to suffer before He acts? In fact, why didn’t He just replace Adam and Eve after they sinned, destroyed the Devil and let the earth be populated with perfect humans originally planned? As puny humans, we don’t have the slightest right to question anything our all-knowing, wise, powerful, omnipotent grand Creator does but we can be assured His plans always succeed. So is this life all there is? Definitely not! We can anticipate the future with the hope of experiencing ‘real’ life as our loving Father intended.

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