Have you noticed how life is often a series of endless repetition? The daily routine of getting out of bed, getting dressed, eating, going to work, etc. is an endless repetition of sameness. Oh, we try to vary the routine somewhat by eating different foods, wearing different clothes, etc., but all-in-all, it is the same thing over and over again.
Mowing the yard is another one of those tasks as is feeding the cattle, feeding the dogs, filling the pickup and car with fuel and on and on. Why is life so repetitive?
Repetition occurs on a much larger scale than just our daily routines. The moon goes repetitively around the earth, the earth around the sun and the galaxy itself spirals in endless motion. The seasons repeat, the weather repeats, long-term climate cycles repeat. The entirety of the universe is cyclical in nature with repetition built into everything.
It is no wonder that some religions believe in a life/death cycle in which the dead come back as someone, or something else. Everything is cyclical so why not an eternal existence as various beings? I don't buy it, but some do.
The same type of thinking leads to a theory of balance -- that it is a "zero sum" game. For every good there is a corresponding evil. I don't subscribe to that theory either. I see good and evil as antagonistic, not balancing complementary states. Ultimately, I believe good will overcome and in fact, I believe it has already occurred through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, but from a temporal perspective, the fulfillment is not observable yet.
Some day we all will see that there is more to life than endless repetition. The first step is to recognize the salvation from this life that rests in Jesus alone. -- John 14:6
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