Is Anything Going Change Your World?

This, in my opinion, is one of the most ironic song lyrics ever. John Lennon wrote it. The Beatles sang it.

Lennon had it all; money and fame. Everything a person could want, if everything a person wants is money and fame. But on the evening of 8 December 1980 he was shot dead outside the apartment building where he lived in New York City. His life on this earth came to an end. His world was changed, and money and fame suddenly meant nothing.

I will not pretend to judge John Lennon's eternal destiny. I will say that he seemed to be on a search for something. His entire public life seemed to be a quest for some kind of spiritual truth. Much of it, I would say, was misplaced and perhaps in completely the wrong places, but a search it was.

Jesus has promised that anyone who seeks will find. Did he mean it? I have to believe he did. So the person who keeps on seeking the truth, not giving up, is assured of finding it, and Jesus is, among other things, the truth. The only ones who will not find are those who do not seek, or give up seeking. They may accept a falsehood as the truth and stop seeking or they may think they have everything they need and couldn't be bothered seeking. Either one is deadly.

Have you found the One who will change your world forever? Are you looking? Want to change your world? Find an Alpha.

Blessings,

John
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