Aaron McLellan--Soul Cravings

I have been reading a book called “Soul Cravings” by Erwin McManus.  Much of this book McManus writes about is about becoming.  It is about purpose and becoming and how when humans do not have purpose they lose hope.  McManus quotes German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who wrote “He who has a why to live can live through any almost any how.”, as he writes about Viktor Frankl and Nazi concentration camps during WWII.  I found it most interesting on the thought of becoming.  It seems essential to a human being to have some kind of hope.  Everyone has to have a hope for the future.  It seems that inside every person there is a sense to become.  It’s not about what you become in the eyes of others but that your satisfying that groan inside your own being that longs to become.  It is what drives people to keep going through adversity.  When Frankl was in the Nazi camps he said that the people who died first were the ones who had lost all hope.  He had stopped believing in the future.  They had stopped becoming.  I guess that is why in Proverbs 29:18 of the Bible it says “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”