The Meaning of life, or the chief end of man as the Westminster Shorter Catechism puts it, is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.
When posed a similar question Jesus said,
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. This is the first and most important commandment. The second most important commandment is like this one. And it is, “Love others as much as you love yourself.” All the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets are based on these two commandments. (Matthew 22:37-40 CEV)
We struggle so hard to find the answer to this question, and it is always right in front of us. But it can’t possibly be that simple. Can It?
I write as a Christian on a Christian blog and I believe the answer to that question is yes. When we give our lives to Christ and stop looking at being a Christian as a super natural fire insurance policy we begin to see what Jesus is saying. Yes being a Christian is as easy as asking Christ into our hearts, but that is not the end. People fall away from their relationship with Christ because we do an awful job of showing them what a real disciple looks like, as described in the New Testament.
In his book Radical
“We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.
When we are ready to really get our lives right with God we will understand what it means to love Him with everything we have. Because He will change us into the men and women he created us to be. When we surrender our heart, soul, and mind he will show us a love like we never knew.
About Steve Crenshaw
We tend to keep our lives so full of fuzz and denial that we really can’t see the forest for the trees. There is so much order, meaning and purpose in this world if we really look for it.
I believe also the the answer is simple – Love. However, Love has so many layers and so many forms. I think that our everyday lives should be the struggle to find the ways to love others, ourselves and, of course, God in every way that we possibly can. That is the task that the God has put in front of us and made it our path.