Is life exhausting you?

If you observe, most of the things that we do in our life is so repetitive and mundane. It becomes part of our existence. In fact, some regular activities lead people towards ‘Obsessive Compulsive Disorder’ (OCD). Now for some of you may wonder what is OCD? It is defined this way, “Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder in which time people have recurring, unwanted thoughts for that matter even activities, ideas or sensations (obsessions) that make them feel driven to do something repetitively (compulsions). ... Many people have focused thoughts or repeated behaviors.”

Does what life gives us bring happiness or peace in our life? I asked my 14 years old daughter how would she distinguish happiness from peace? This is how she explained to me, Example: “If I have to play PUBG or ‘clash of clans’, in the beginning the interest level seems to be so high and I feel so happy at that moment, but then it forces me to play more and more to experience more happiness just to find that it is culminating to mental fatigue and excitements is also fading away. But peace is when there is calmness in my heart and without any material things,  I still have the joy in my heart.”.

It made lot of sense to me. Frankly speaking one who finds peace and joy even in his/her loneliness is the person who understands the true meaning of life. The external situations can always be daunting, challenging and threatening but if you have God in your life you have perfect peace. The Bible says, “You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you.”.

We just wish sometimes things are different, but soon the different activities can also become so boring and tire us. C. S. Lewis explains this: "Heaven understands hell and hell does not understand heaven.... to project ourselves into a wicked character, we have only to stop doing something and something we are already tired of doing; to project ourselves into a good one we have to do what we cannot and become what we are not.”.

"Jesus came to remind us that we are bound to the temporal subsist without life's blueprint. Though we continue to exist, we miss life for what it was meant to be. He wants us to see what it means to live through the lens of the eternal. That takes place when He makes our lives His home. There, He has promised to bless us." Ravi Zacharias.

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