Ignorance and Bliss

In Thornton Wilder's play, Our Town, the final scene depicts a graveyard where several characters reflect on their time alive. Simon Stimson, the church organist and town drunk, says that all people live in blind ignorance. He claims that people live each day without purpose in complete misunderstanding. They don't live, they just survive. They are ignorant of what is important, of what is true, of what is eternal. However, Christians do not have to live in ignorance. Because of our hope, we have the opportunity to live deliberately with a higher purpose. Not only that, but it is the will of God that we help others escape their ignorance so that they too may have hope. I Peter 2 says,

^"For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God."

Because of what we have in Christ we can be free and use our freedom to serve God and others by leading them to salvation. We do not have to be blind and ignorant, like organisms just waiting to die. We are living servants that can silence the ignorance.