Finding Meaning

So many of us are looking for purpose or meaning in life. Dietrich Bonhoeffer perhaps said it best in his Letters and Papers from Prison (p. 207): In these turbulent times we repeatedly lose sight of what really makes life worth living We think that, because this or that person is living, it makes sense for us to live too. But the truth is that if this earth was good enough for the man Jesus Christ, if such a man as Jesus lived, then, and only then, has life a meaning for us. If Jesus had not lived, then our life would be meaningless, in spite of all the other people whom we know and honor and love. Perhaps we now sometimes forget the meaning and purpose of our profession. But is not this the simplest way of putting it? The unbiblical notion of "meaning" is indeed only a translation of what the Bible calls "promise."

Without Jesus - without the promise of meaning found in a living God who loves and cares for and forgives us, life is at best a cruel joke - an absurdity into which we try, in vain, to inject real meaning. But the resurrected Son of God gives life true meaning, and we find our own meaningfulness only in Him.

Pastor Ken