|
Marty Feldman was one of the most brilliant comic actors this country has produced. He was also one of the most honest. Just before his tragic, sudden death many years ago, he was visited by David Lewin of the Daily Mail. In the course of the interview Lewin asked him if he was happy with his life.  "Happy?" he replied, "No, I'm not. And why should we be? Everyone tells us that we ought to be happy, but no-one tells us how. "I've always felt myself to be a bit of a freak anyway. Just a temporary member of the human race." Many of us can understand that feeling. We didn't ask to be brought here, we just arrived. And no-one issued us with detailed instructions about how to live on Planet Earth and get the very best out of our time here. We just have to make it up as we go along - feeling all the time that the great secret behind it all is somehow passing us by. That if there's a plan to the universe, we haven't been let in on it. Or does it have to be that way? The Bible claims it doesn't - that we can know purpose and hope in living and happiness too, by contacting our Creator, who is only waiting to hear from us. Two weeks after the interview, Marty Feldman died - still without discovering the secret. How sad. But how sad for you, too, if you came within finding distance of that secret - and then walked away from it. Don't do that, read your Bible, ask someone who you know is a Christian to tell you more about God's plan for your life. |