Ever wondered about the meaning of life - what is it worth - is it worth at all to pull through all the troubles in life - what do I get in the end? for what? You and I are not the first ones to feel that way. King Solomon felt it centuries before:
"“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”" Ecclesiastes 1:2
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”" Ecclesiastes 1:2
How would you and I know? You and I never choose to be born. We were here even before we realized what had happened.
Going one step back. Why are we all here - all us human beings. Is this some big joke to be born and die meaninglessly - still worse is to be consious of it. Many of us believe that God created us - but to what end. Why did he create us?
Probably, this is where human knowledge ends and spiritual knowlege begins. Having searched with all human intelligence for an answer for many years, I could not find a good reason. To aknowledge this costed my pride - but yes, that it was it costed to know God. It was leaving my conceit and trusing him like a small child - no wonder he says that unless we become like children we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
When he showed me the reason, it all sounded so right. 'Love' is the simple and yet profound reason why he created man. He wants to share his love with us in all its intensity and expects the same for us.
When he showed me the reason, it all sounded so right. 'Love' is the simple and yet profound reason why he created man. He wants to share his love with us in all its intensity and expects the same for us.
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God" - 1 John 4:7
This a love that is in nowhere finite or conditional. All of us are designed to experience this love that flows from the creator. The emptiness that most of us feel is because this place that is created by our creator in us is empty. The true joy in life comes from living in the knowlege of his love - under his presence and the beauty of his face. As C.S. Lewis beautifully puts it:
"A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on."
"A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on."
If human love that is wavering can cause us so much of ecstacy or pain, imagine the power that love has - even at a finite and human level. Imagine how much more lost we are if we are away from God's love. No wonder we feel meaningless and empty!!!
If love is what that made us, all we need to do is open our heart to receive it. I will discuss the things that kept me from connecting with him in one of my later articles.
I have come to the conclusion, the main purpose of my life is to live in communion with God and to do his will in my life. There is nothing that gives greater satisfaction that living close to him and doing what he asks me to do - after all we will do anything for someone who loves us so greatly.
I have come to the conclusion, the main purpose of my life is to live in communion with God and to do his will in my life. There is nothing that gives greater satisfaction that living close to him and doing what he asks me to do - after all we will do anything for someone who loves us so greatly.
"You were born by his purpose and for his purpose" - Rick Warren
