They say there are two important days in your life: the day you are born and the day you find out why you were born. It is certainly important to find out the meaning of life. That is where philosophy or religion come into play. Science cannot help you here. Science is know-how, not know-how! Solomon was very wise. He tried to find many ways to put meaning and purpose into life. Solomon did not search the scripture to find the meaning in life. In other words, he tried all the various philosophies that were available at the time. "The world by wisdom did not find God." (1 Cor. 1:21).
But what he ultimately found out is that without God in the equation, life is meaningless. Unless you assume a God. The question of life's purpose is pointless. Solomon said, for instance, that. life under the sun is ultimately vanity. Everything is vanity under the sun without God in your metric. In other words, perplexity, confusion, uselessness, meaninglessness, and purposelessness. In other words, you might as well be a nihilist without any purpose in life other than to exist. And some people do that. They don't live, they exist.
Our life is not just meant to be a temporary thing. We are here on a pilgrimage toward heaven and must prepare for our ultimate destination. Life under the Son of God is full of purpose and meaning. On the contrary, to that life under the sun in the universe. The point is that life is unfair. Life seems to have no foundations. Life is tough and hard to get through sometimes. Sometimes it seems like the survival of the fittest, the law of the jungle, or whatever. Only the tough survive in this dog-eat-dog world. But we must realize that we can make it through with God and control.
What's the point? The point is that, if you know Christ, then you know life. You have died and our life is hidden with Christ in God. If there is no Christ at all in your life, then there is no life at all without Christ either. In other words, you must not only find yourself, you must find God. You cannot find purpose and meaning on your own. You must look for something bigger than yourself in this life and look for something to live for that is bigger than you.
We all have our happy place. And that is important to find in our comfort zone. Sometimes we must step outside of it or outside the box to see what God has to offer our lives. And take that leap of faith and be willing to go alone in step by step following God, where he wants us to go. I want to constantly. We have in life that God is with us. He will never forsake us or leave us. He will bless us give us direction and bless us where we are planted. If we trusted him.
A wise person will fear God. Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Fear of God does not mean that he is afraid of God. he respects God and shows God shows reverence and respect and worships God putting him into the equation and also taking him seriously.
Define a big purpose in life. We don't need big faith as much as we need a big God. It's not how big your faith is, or whether it has doubts or not, but whether or how big your God is, whether your God is capable of doing miracles and working miracles in your life. Do you believe in the right God? That's the point right there. And you must apply the wisdom that God gives you. It is not something to store up in your head to be smart and smarter than everybody else but to apply and make yourself a practicing believer.
We must practice our creed and put into practice what we believe. Turn our creeds into deeds. We realize that the wisdom of the world is foolishness to God and the world by wisdom did not find God. We must learn to seek God in faith and believe that he is. And we will find him. He promises that. there is a reward for all those who seek God and find him. God will bless us beyond our expectations. We must expect great things from God because he will. bring and break. and the great things because. when we attempt great things for God, he will bring them to bout to be.
We must realize that the unexamined life is not really worth living, as Socrates said. We have to come to the end of ourselves, as even Solomon must have, to realize that we have to find God to find what life is about. It's all about finding God in summation, or fearing God, saying, God, same thing. You cannot do one thought the other. We must realize our place in God's scheme of things, and realize the understanding of the world in a Christian worldview. Seeing things as God would have them see the big picture, so to speak.
Sometimes we learn these lessons very hard, and we must go through the hard school of hard knocks. But Solomon sums it all up here saying that we must and we realize the blessings of God that he gives us and fear of God and do our duty and utilize these blessings for God's glory. The words are to be a blessing in return. We are here to be a blessing. In other words, to be God's blessing to the world.
We must realize that it will all be worth it in the end, when we have God with us. This life seems short but the things that we do have an effect that vibrates for eternity. In our life, singing a song of chord that is a melody heard for eternity. But the journey with God is wonderful and we are not alone. We are on a pilgrimage with Jesus as our guide. Nothing is in vain for the Christian. God works all things together for the good, even evil. God has a good purpose in the long term. Soli Deo Gloria!