Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another.
Hebrews 10:24-25
Have you become cynical, apathetic, or even angry over the course of the last ten months? It’s easy to fall into that trap of cynicism when it seems like the world is totally out of your control. Or perhaps you’re on the other side of the spectrum where your job security isn’t threatened, your life at home has not changed all that much, therefore you’ve been sheltered from the burning world outside. Both extremes are not healthy to our spirituality. Jewish psychiatrist and philosopher Viktor Frankl witnessed both extremes when he lived as a prisoner during WW2 holocaust; he witnessed the hopelessness of his fellow prisoners and the monstrous behavior of the privileged Nazi soldiers. One thing that kept him going through those horrific events is one thing: MEANING. The follower of Christ exists for the purpose of “love and good deeds.” Therefore, “let us not give up meeting together.” What is your meaning?
“Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how.’”
–Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
