All of history is rift with man’s search for God. With this in mind, Blaise Pascal wrote, “What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, 
of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself”
Airing earlier this year on the National Geographic Channel was “The Story of God.” Morgan Freeman, who played God in several movies, traveled around the world to find God in all the world’s religions. When interviewed by FOX411, Freeman said, “”What we’ve done is go around the world asking, observing, trying to get that sense of what binds us all together. We came away with the idea that we’re much more the same than we are different. Every religion is after the same thing.” One writer correctly observed that, “The end goal of ‘The Story of God’ is to open an interfaith dialogue about ideas and values that we all share, not that we disagree on.”
In my opinion, what Freeman discovered was that all humans have the same hunger for God. The human condition as Pascal describes is universal. But the various attempts to address that hunger for God as expressed in the many world religions is anything but “the same thing.” Jesus was presented in this series as just another option for approaching God. But I would argue that Jesus did not come to set up another “religion” but to destroy all religions and to give restless man rest in his search for God. In Matthew 11:27, Jesus said, “All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” I agree with Michael Green’s observation in his commentary on this verse. He writes, “Whatever revelation there may be, dispersed in human intellect and values, in virtuous action, in nature and in the history of humankind, the center of all God’s self-disclosure is Jesus of Nazareth. He fulfills all the hopes of the Old Testament, and is the heart of all revelation. In a dark world lit by candles and lamps, he comes as a searchlight.”
saw signs of all kinds. There were Highway signs, advertisements for fuel, lodging, food and other accommodations one might need when they got weary on the highway. It doesn’t take too long for us to get weary in the car after 6 to 8 hours of driving so when we saw the “Rest Area” sign it was rather encouraging. We need to get out and stretch our legs and get away from those 18 wheelers passing us at 75 miles an hour and all the other stresses on the road. You really have to stay alert and pay attention to everything going on around you. That’s when I began to think of life as the long highway. We all drive the same road. It’s the road of obligation, diligence, and hard work. Everyone has responsibilities in life. We have to work, we have to get up with alarm clocks, we have to struggle with difficult relationships on the job, at school and even in our homes at times. Our lives on life’s road are filled with signs of “must do…, should do…, ought to do,” and responsibilities that make us all weary.
being made right with God was accomplished solely by faith in Christ and not the performance of righteous deeds faced opposition on two fronts. The religious leaders of his day scoffed at the idea that scoundrels and miscreants could attain a righteousness equal to, and in fact superior to, those who dedicated years of their lives in service and ministry to the church. Others argued that if all our righteous acts of service count for nothing, we may as well do as we please, living lives of selfish indulgence.
cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant…” If you ask me, this sounds like a violation of the laws of sowing and reaping that God established with Adam when Adam and Eve ate of the tree and bore the consequences of their choice. In Genesis 3:17-19 (ESV) God cursed Adam and said, “…cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread…” Yet in Deuteronomy, God promises to give Abraham and His descendants all the good things of life without having to “sweat” for them. What’s up with that?