Cycle: “an interval of time during which a sequence of a recurring succession of events or phenomena is completed; … A course or series of events or operations that recur regularly and usually lead back to the starting point” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).
Does this description sound familiar? Our lives often seem to be in a state of perpetual cycles—cycles of daily routine, personal habits, and recurring behavior. Then there are the cycles which seem to go on outside of ourselves but nevertheless influence and affect our lives, such as cyclical economic and financial patterns, cycles of weather and seasons, voting and elections, and even the cycles that can cause one country to fall and another to rise. The list could become quite long, but probably the most accepted of all cycles is the belief that life starts with birth and ends with death.
Do we have to accept any of these cycles as inevitable? Are they the underlying laws of the universe that govern us and the world? Or is there an unseen law of God that trumps all of these cycles of mortal life, a divine law that can be proved and felt in our lives?
