FAME...a False Assessment of Meaningful Existence. First Tiger Woods, now Lance Armstrong....as America's athletic heroes fall from grace one by one, forced to confess the ugly details of their tainted pasts, I cannot help but think on the emptiness of the idols we worship in this world. Theologian Peter Kreeft once wrote that "the opposite of following Christ is not atheism but idolatry," and this has never been more evident than it is today.
In the end, Inevitably, we all worship something. The real question is whether we will put our faith, hope and trust entirely in God to sustain, satisfy and save our souls or instead spend out lives aimlessly chasing after one thing and then another until we have wasted all our time, thought and talent on empty living and a meaningless existence with nothing to show of Christ or anything that truly matters.
I think C.S. Lewis captured it best when he said, "It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
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