Searching for Meaning

Everyone searches for a deeper meaning in life. The things we do are our attempts to find our purpose - looking good, feeling good, eating awesome food to please our taste buds, climbing up the corporate ladder, buying a big house, driving a cool car, etc. Perhaps, these things can give us some "happiness" but such feelings are short-lived. When we buy a car, we feel good driving it. Days may pass and we're still on the high. But as months and years go by, we don't feel that initial zest towards the car, especially if another newer model has caught our attention by then. 

We search for this deeper meaning to feel the sense of purpose in our lives in the malls, pubs, discos, at the beach or spa, etc. The funny thing is that if the mall were to provide us with this meaning, we would have found our meaning on our first visit. If the pubs could offer us the meaning to life, we would have found it the first time. Need we keep going back again and again to search again? Or is the "purpose" so short-lived that it cannot last a lifetime? 

Perhaps we've deliberately denied our realisation and hid it in our UNconscious that these places and activities really do not lead us to our life-purpose discovery. Why search for happiness in places and activities that cannot give substantial and long lasting happiness? If our life's purpose is to stand the test of time, then it must be found in the one source that has stood the test of time. What other source is there but in Jesus? In Him, who was, who is and who is to come, through all eternity, can we find our purpose. It is He who has put us in this world for a reason. There is something out there in this world we were meant to contribute in for His kingdom building. And we know it right well that it is when we've found God's reason for our existence and answer to that call to live out His purpose for us can we find peace and true satisfaction and fulfilment. It is then that we can really live a life fully lived. We have to seek our purpose in the direction of God and let Him lead us to His truth and will. 

15 July 2010

11.54pm