For anyone: What's this life for?

[Nessa]

Was listening to this song by Creed.
Seemed like a good question for all.


Thoughts?

[Storyteller]

To realise and appreciate the beauty and wonder of it all.

That goes for believers and non believers alike.

Whichever way you look at it, life is nothing short of a miracle. If we are created by God, that`s pretty awesome and even if we aren`t it`s still pretty awesome.

So life is for love, for wonder, for thanks. To learn, to grow, to explore, to experience.

[Nicki]

I was thinking in slightly less positive terms - of the rubbish and boring stuff of life as well as the wonderful experiences. But I was thinking it's for making the most of, appreciating all the good things and the fact we have a life, and trying to improve others' lives as well as share the gospel with them.

[EssentialSacrifice]

i was thinking in substantially simpler terms: To love and serve God, and love and serve others – this is what produces real purpose and meaning. It is a universal truth that we cannot escape from. It is our purpose of life.

[Nicki]

i was thinking in substantially simpler terms: To love and serve God, and love and serve others – this is what produces real purpose and meaning. It is a universal truth that we cannot escape from. It is our purpose of life.

Yes, I feel the same whenever I get around to serving others It's easy to forget that's even better than serving yourself!

[EssentialSacrifice]

Yes, I feel the same whenever I get around to serving others

nothing to be embarrassed about young lady ... if you've done it even once, you've done well in His name.

i have been and will, i'm sure, continue to be a self serving disgracefully poor child of God. but i was worse when He found me some years ago and He decided it was time to make me a change, His greatest gift to me was the acknowledgement of His sacrifice. We are to sacrifice ourselves to Him each and every day with continuous prayer with Him and service to others before ourselves. what i have found to date is the more i help others, there better my life has become. the more i give even more is returned. the more i sacrifice the sacrifice means more. the clearer the not so distant future becomes.
sacrifice is love, love is God and God is blissful eternity.

[RickD]

i was thinking in substantially simpler terms: To love and serve God, and love and serve others – this is what produces real purpose and meaning. It is a universal truth that we cannot escape from. It is our purpose of life.

Great post ES! I would've given you 3 tens, but we don't have a 3 tens smilie.

[EssentialSacrifice]

well, nobody's perfect (deja vu anyone ?) thx rick

[Nessa]

Was listening to this song by Creed.
Seemed like a good question for all.


Thoughts?

This is it in a nutshell for me

Ecclesiastes 12:13
That's the whole story. Here now is my final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone's duty.

Everything we say, do, achieve, should lead us back to that one conclusion.

[Nessa]

And a big part of that is learning how to do that, and many times failing to to do it.

[EssentialSacrifice]

And a big part of that is learning how to do that, and many times failing to to do it.

i don't think it's a big part darling, i think it's the part. The one thing that has to be done in a lifetime.

learning how to do that ... learning that failure is not an end game but another opening door. realizing that failure is the first step to the recovery God plans for you, us all. Romans 5:3-5 chin up Nes

life is for honoring God, learning how is our great life long challenge, and apparently you get it.

[Kurieuo]

Ecclesiastes 1:2-11

• 2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
  says the Teacher.
  “Utterly meaningless!
  Everything is meaningless.”
  3 What do people gain from all their labors
  at which they toil under the sun?
  4 Generations come and generations go,
  but the earth remains forever.
  5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
  and hurries back to where it rises.
  6 The wind blows to the south
  and turns to the north;
  round and round it goes,
  ever returning on its course.
  7 All streams flow into the sea,
  yet the sea is never full.
  To the place the streams come from,
  there they return again.
  8 All things are wearisome,
  more than one can say.
  The eye never has enough of seeing,
  nor the ear its fill of hearing.
  9 What has been will be again,
  what has been done will be done again;
  there is nothing new under the sun.
  10 Is there anything of which one can say,
  “Look! This is something new”?
  It was here already, long ago;
  it was here before our time.
  11 No one remembers the former generations,
  and even those yet to come
  will not be remembered
  by those who follow them.

[Nessa]

Ecclesiastes 1:2-11

• 2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
  says the Teacher.
  “Utterly meaningless!
  Everything is meaningless.”
  3 What do people gain from all their labors
  at which they toil under the sun?
  4 Generations come and generations go,
  but the earth remains forever.
  5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
  and hurries back to where it rises.
  6 The wind blows to the south
  and turns to the north;
  round and round it goes,
  ever returning on its course.
  7 All streams flow into the sea,
  yet the sea is never full.
  To the place the streams come from,
  there they return again.
  8 All things are wearisome,
  more than one can say.
  The eye never has enough of seeing,
  nor the ear its fill of hearing.
  9 What has been will be again,
  what has been done will be done again;
  there is nothing new under the sun.
  10 Is there anything of which one can say,
  “Look! This is something new”?
  It was here already, long ago;
  it was here before our time.
  11 No one remembers the former generations,
  and even those yet to come
  will not be remembered
  by those who follow them.

Does that mean your post is meaningless?

Actually....
If everything is meaningless then so is this thread and so is this post that Im writing


Seriously, I often see so much truth there....
It is great for putting things into perspective.

[Nessa]

I would love to hear what the non christians think too.

[Kurieuo]

"There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil."
- Ecclesiastes 2:24