The Meaning Of Life

What is the meaning of life? What does your life mean to you? 

That is a profound question, worthy of some deep thought and consideration. What is it that consumes your time, your energy, your thoughts and actions, your life resources?

Just a little note of who I am. I'm just a nobody, but I'm an important nobody. We each have our place in this world - our job, our duty, our family. It has been said that…

"to the world, you are just one person, 

but to one special person, you might be the whole world."

I believe each one of us is unique and special in our own way. God made us that way. He made us to be alive, to live each breath and heartbeat that we have, to explore everything it means to be alive. 

I am a Christian, a “believer.” I believe in what the Bible teaches. I believe in Jesus, that He is the Son of the true, living God, who came to not only show us the way to life, but to provide the spiritual power and grace and inspiration to have the best life possible. He came to deliver us from sin, which is anything that draws us away or apart from God who loves us. I believe that Jesus lived and died for us to be close to God, and that He rose from the dead and still lives the everlasting life that God provides for each one of us. 

I don't understand or know everything. There are bits of truth to be found throughout history, and in many different sources. God made everything and everyone - why wouldn't there be traces of truth everywhere? Many spiritual leaders throughout history have seen and understood bits of this truth. But Jesus said that He Himself is “the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me.” John 14.6

There is so much distraction in the modern world today. It's good to get away from all the circus, the flashing lights and buzzing sounds, the stimulations that don't give you energy but rather excite and end up making you weary. Even if you can't “go somewhere” to get away, you can get away in your mind. You can read, you can observe what is around you, you can listen to “the sound of silence,” as the old song was called. There is so much more than that which is physical around us. Not that the physical world is unimportant or inconsequential - it is! But it is not ALL that there is. 

There is a spiritual realm, in which we find love, and beauty, and meaning. It is the spiritual realm that keeps you going, or you get dragged down. You can commune with the living God in prayer, both to speak and to listen. God has a lot to say, a lot to convey to us - if we will only listen and follow.

“Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.” 1 Peter 4.8