To be or not to be, that is the question...

To be or not to be, that is the question…

Being is integral to who we are. Being is the state of our existence: whether we be what we are made to be or not is a constant battle. Acts 17:28 “for in Him we live and move and have our being”- no one can pretend to be someone else and at the same time manage to remain genuine and true to their self. Having not built our pillars internally, we subtly succumb as the invisible sinkhole appear, collapsing within. Everyday we face the choice of wither embracing or refusing our real selves. Perhaps cosmetics has gained more ground than we realize as “skin deep” because we lack the courage to acknowledge our ugliness and our need. Not being true to self, on its own already rejection, has driven many to the path of madness and sadly, suicide. Self-realisation, as many call it, is difficult to be attained without good enduring hope. There is no possible deliverance from this life-draining sickness by pretension or romanticizing the idea of death as an escape route for salvation. We all know better, death without good hope ends us nowhere close to heaven. Though reputed as the most famous line from a Shakespearean character, note the hopelessness and helplessness in Hamlet’s words as he contemplates ending his life after he discovers the cold-blooded murder that got his father and had led him to believe in a lie regarding his demise:

“To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; no more; and, by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished…”

So, being famous doesn't guarantee you've got life! Constrast it to the sure and hopeful tone of Romans 8:31-35, 37-39 “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who id not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us form the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress or presecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels or principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

What love, what joy and what hope do His children possess!