I think it leads people to what really matters the most in their lives, and then asking questions if even that really matters.
For instance, how would you live your life in such a way that it really mattered. The first thing I think about is to live for other people. Go to africa and give orphans food. Spend time with kids so they can grow up and do the same, right?
Then that kid that we invest in, he grows up and gets a job for a magazine, writes and researches from 9-5, goes home, has a drink and watches a movie, then goes to sleep. On the weekends he plans fishing trips, he spends most of his free time on ESPN.com and can't wait for sundays when the guys come over and he watches the Chargers go 14-2 then win the super bowl.
not a bad life, but if the thing I get most excited about is the chargers, it seems to me i'm wasting my life.
I've been working construction this summer and its so sad to hear the guys talk about their lives. They live with a girl that they got pregnant before they were married and now they are living in a trailer with a couple kids trying to do the right thing. They work LONG hours trying to pay their expenses but they still live paycheck to paycheck. When they are not working they are sleeping, on the weekends they try to relax so they can get back to work during the week. The brutal truth is that it seems pretty wasted.
So if mother Theresa spends her life helping other people to waste their lives is her life wasted? The brutal truth is that it also seems pretty wasted.
Therefore life is meaningless.
Or should I say life apart from God is meaningless? When we put God in the situation our lives all of a sudden become meaningful. We realize our purpose is to know God, then all of a sudden the mother Theresa, humanitarian work takes on meaning. We feed people so that they can live a meaningful life, knowing God, enjoying what he has given us to enjoy. We invest in that kid so that he can exist with God.
If there is eternity, then everything takes on new significance. If its not there, the only life not wasted is one not lived. But don't kill yourself! There is eternity! and there is eternal significance to our actions here!
I wanna live a life not wasted, a life that matters for eternity.
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