An Audio Message From the Publisher:
This is Hank Scott, for The Pure Truth Restored...
Why do you hurt at times? Why do you sometimes suffer or need to cry out in pain or anguish?
What makes you feel lonely, or depressed, angry or bitter, hostile or afraid?
For that matter, what is it that makes you feel joyful, happy, contented, satisfied, wanted or needed?
Have you ever thought to ask yourself the most basic questions of all: Why are you here, and what is your ultimate purpose in life?
So many will tell you what they think the answers to these important questions are, or you may have repeated such things to persuade others to join or remain in your group, in the belief that there is strength in numbers.
Entire nations have made the mistake of believing this, to the point of costly and destructive military defeat and humiliation.
When you were young, you learned to act as others around you expected you to act.
As you grew up, you learned to behave as your teachers demanded of you.
Growing into adulthood, you began to learn how to work the way your employer(s) required, spending the majority of your time doing what your fellow workers or superiors at your job insisted.
Perhaps, as you matured and grew in experience, you even started thinking and acting on your own behalf, taking full responsibility for your life and decisions, to start working for yourself and reaping the rewards of self-employment.
Or like too many today, you might have relied too heavily on the "benefits" of welfare, and took advantage of whatever you could get "for free," until your life slipped by from dependent child to dependent elderly age, with little to show for having lived on earth other than your presence.
Along the way, you might have learned to fellowship with like-minded people, in various types of groups, from clubs and associations to religious or secular organizations.
You have either followed where others lead you, or you have tried to lead others in the ways you thought best, but in either case -- like society as a whole -- you have helped affect and influence others around you to think, behave and act as you have done.
This may have had a positive and uplifting influence on them, or a negative one, depending on your motives or theirs, and upon the aims and purpose of the entire group or society.
In all these things, you have learned, acted and lived life as it satisfies you, doing what you thought best at the time. Am I right?
There is one way, however, you have probably never lived your life, into which so few tend to grow and mature.
And that is learning what satisfies your Creator. For whether you know, believe and accept this or not, your survival and existence every moment and day depends entirely upon His providence and energetic momentum in creating and sustaining all that you can see, hear and feel.
Sometimes these are not the best or most enjoyable of things.
Often you have seen, heard or felt what you would call "bad" things.
Ever wonder why that is?
In learning the rules or laws by which you live your life, did you ever seek first to learn and obey the statutes and commandments of your caring Creator? (For if He did not care, none of us would have a world full of abundance to live in or enjoy each day; which demands of you the responsibility of not taking advantage of your neighbor, and helping provide for the needs of those who are weaker or less capable of caring for themselves!)
Are you able to learn what satisfies Him, and live your life according to what pleases your Sovereign Creator, who was willing to -- and did -- give up His own life so that you might be forgiven the death penalty for your own shortcomings (sins) in failing to do this in the past?
Or would you like to feel the sting of remorse, the bitterness of futility, and the desperate realization that all is finally lost in the "game of life," as you have known it?
Do you offer your services and loyalty to idols, kissing the hand that misleads you into ultimately ruinous, disastrous calamity?
Or will you instead offer your life in humble and prayerful daily obedience, to serve the purpose for which all of creation has painfully labored, in bringing forth spiritual children into a new life and a better creation than anything yet existing?
One or the other of these will be your lot in life.
Which one all depends upon whether you seek only that which satisfies you, or those who would mislead you, or that which your Creator desires and demands, if your life is to please and satisfy Him, to reap His blessings and the reward for a life well lived, in His service and work.
No one works without a plan, a blueprint, rules or regulations of conduct, and guidance or direction from somewhere.
Whether you work for others or yourself, this is the ultimate reality of the world, and one you cannot help but acknowledge, unless you are somehow defective in your thinking, or ability to behave in accordance with what works profitably and gains the ends desired.
So it should not surprise or shock you that the highest purpose in life also has its rules of conduct, its commandments to faithfully follow, and its laws to obey!
Learn and obey them, and nothing in life, or death, can hurt or defeat you.
Living your life according to your Creator's will and purpose, and not just for today, alone can release all fears, comfort all pains, banish all anguish, tears and suffering, and create all joy, real purpose, and ultimately reward you with abundant and unending life.
Satisfying just yourself, or others who are carnal in purpose, in this present day and age, can only lead you to regrets, total remorse, ultimate frustration, unreasoned anger, inconsolable weeping, unreasoning fear, and finally utter destruction in the end.
With this understanding you have reached a fork in the road of your life. Which direction you decide to take will result in one of these two final consequences.
Which one do you want it to be?
When all is said and done, and you have arrived at the conclusion of your present life's brief journey, will you be satisfied with the end results?