The truth is, no one can truly understand purpose unless and until he/she is acquainted with his/her creator. Don't get me wrong; clearly MJ was destined to create music and entertain. In that respect he lived out his purpose and accomplished what no other entertainer has ever accomplished: greatest selling album ever; 13 Grammy awards, etc. Yet, it seems there remained this dissatisfaction, a sense of longing, a void -- he knew there was something else. His songs "Heal the World," "We are the World," "Man in the Mirror," "The Lost Children," etc., hint at a recognition on some level that there was something more he was to do with his gift.
Life is so ephemeral, so fleeting. It is important to seek God, to feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us (Acts 17:27). Jesus alone gives true peace, true satisfaction, and true meaning to life.
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he and his whole family was jehovahs witness. He missed out on his childhood as his career started at age 5. Thherefore he had a Peter Pan complex from the void of his lost childhood. I think you may want to reasses your reasoning on this statement.
ReplyDeletehe and his whole family was jehovahs witness. He missed out on his childhood as his career started at age 5. Thherefore he had a Peter Pan complex from the void of his lost childhood. I think you may want to reasses your reasoning on this statement.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment. People do not come to the earth by accident. Each life has significance. No one can live out the fulness of their purpose on earth without an intimate relationship with God, and no one can come to God except through Jesus Christ. Clearly, there were voids in Mr. Jackson's life. There will be voids in anyone's life who has not received Jesus as his/her Lord and personal savior. How that void manifests (void from a lost childhood, void from lack of nurturing, void from extreme pressures to perform, void from being used, void from false love, etc.) may vary. What is clear is that tragic consequencies may ensue if the individual does not invite Jesus in to totally restore the voids in that person's life. Jesus brings true deliverance and true wholeness. There is a particular unimaginable horror in being apart from the One who intended something different for you than what you have chosen. The Adversary wants to defile the beauty of God's purpose in each life. Now, I personally do not know what Mr. Jackson professed. I was not there in the remaining days of Mr. Jackson's life. I've never met him. I don't know what decision he may or may not have made prior to departing this earth. What I do know is we have a lot of work to do as believers to move forward in fulfilling the Great Commission. People need the Lord.
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