Recently I have been going thru life thinking “life is pointless”. Not in a bad way. I’m not saying I’ve gone through life failing my classes uncaring, and stealing for convience stores. No. I’m saying that I’ve realized how nothing matters. Let me delve.
So recently was graduation. Cameron is now officialy graduated. As I was watching the graduation take place I realized it was pointless. I mean, yes graduating is important, but the whole hoopla of it is really pointless. All the speakers you don’t know and you don’t care what they say. All the music that escalates. The walking, the clothes and funny hat, everything, it’s all pointless.
So this is what I realized, it’s pointless. Everything is. All this homerwork we do, and all this learning we do in school, pointless. Yes I might get myself “farther” in life, but what is “farther”? Really does it matter if your rich? Or have a good job? Not really. What is life all about.
I don’t know. Truthfully I can only guess. I could start preaching about the point of life being living for God, but truthfully I don’t think that’s it. God didn’t create us to live for him. Did he?
Well what about the graduation? What is important? The diploma? The gown? The party…….. ah yes. The party; friends, hanging out. Is that important. Does that bring you pleasure and enjoyment. If so, isn’t that what life is about. Did God really create us to live for him? Or did he create us to enjoy life?
Yes……. yes what? Yes I think he did. I think God created us to live for enjoyment, and he knows that when we live for him, with him we will have the most enjoyment. God wants us to be happy, that’s what we are here for, or that’s what I believe.
So really, life isn’t pointless. Life is just pointless when you focus on the pointless. Really you just need to enjoy life however you can, and to find the most enjoyment would be through God.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
” ‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
P.S. This is a Plog a Preach Log (According to Riley)
June 15th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Life - pointless? Of course not. Yes, I believe God wants us to enjoy life to the fullest; but I believe He wants us to not only enjoy it, but to make a difference and to let others see Him living within us as we go through this life on earth. Relatively speaking, our time here is short. He wants us to make the most of it and experience and share His JOY!
Thanks for your thoughts, Spencer.
June 17th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Perhaps…but since the fall, we have more to do in life than enjoy it. As people who God calls to love other people, the most we can do to love them is to show them God, and maybe that will be hard and painful and not a happy time, but it will be joyful in the sense that we are doing what is asked of us and are fulfilled.
July 30th, 2007 at 11:41 am
I have to say in some ways i disagree w/ you. I think that graduating is important because yes god does want you to enjoy life, but he also wants you to do his work. And if in fact you do graduate to ” go farther” then are you not able to further also reach people more? The people with mmoney are the people who need the help the most, for why can they htink theat there is more to life, if they have mostly everything. Ther is more to life yes,but if u have no money, are on the streets, and all of that, yes you can trust fully ingod… but are you living life to its fullest? It hard to c but i do not believe that life is pointless, life is the greates gift that we can get, and we must live it to its fullest untill the day that we get to go home.
September 5th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Most arguing “life is pointless” face huge expectations causing the flight or fight response to engage.
The _only_ point to life is seeing that humans can’t live without God: it’s a multi-millenia experiment that God kicked off when Satan challenged him a few millenia back. Soon this’ll be over and then we can actually live something meaningful.
September 30th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
You must have gotten a bit misguided somewhere, because if you are living for yourself, you are not living for God. If you are not living for God, why would he want anything to do with you, ever? If you live for yourself, you’re going to hell since you are essentially some sort of hedonist, rather than self-sacrificing (like Jesus). If you live for God, you go to Heaven when you die, but who wants to go to Heaven forever. Eventually, you’ll get bored, and then what? In conclusion, yes, life is very much pointless unless you play mind games with yourself until you believe it isn’t.
October 1st, 2007 at 5:07 pm
I never said that you should live for yourself. I said that you should enjoy life as best you can, and the best way to do that is through God. See God wants you to be happy, so that’s what we should do, not live for ourselves, there is a difference. As for going to heaven forever, i would LOVE TO. You won’t get bored. Heaven is like a new earth. It will be better though. It’s not floating around on clouds playing harps, it’s…it’s…… I don’t know what it is, but it’s going to be amazingly cool and rocking.