LIFE OF MEANING
May the blessings of the Lord be ours in Jesus name.
We will be looking at how we call bring meaning to life.
More than 90% of our human pursuit remain pursuits after vanity. Like the preacher says in Ecclesiastes, vanity upon vanity, all is vanity
Ecclesiastes 1:2 KJV
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:14 KJV
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:1 KJV
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:11 KJV
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
The Bible says: Life and death are brought before us, we should choose life so we may live.
Proverbs also says: There’s a way that seems right to a man but the end is death.
What we often live for that do not count later.
1. *Food
Many people all their lives pursue after what to eat.
At the end of life, not a calf or grain will be taken with us to heaven
Sometimes we need to relax and ask ourselves: Does it really matter?
Some people have put their greater expenses and life pursuit on food.
1 Corinthians 6:13 KJV
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them.
Both food and belly shall end destroyed with time
What you shall be left with is your spirit man.
Jesus said: man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from God
What Jesus Christ is saying is: Food grows the body.
But the more important is the word. Because the word grows the spirit of man. So it is more important to find and live by God’s word.
The psalmist, David says that he seek for the word of God more than his food.
Do you know what?
Those who have the word have more provision, supply and food.
When Jesus refused to succumb to the needy pressure for food when he was tempted, he was given dominion to multiply food for thousands of people.
When Moses ruled over his appetite through a fasted life he became the access for provision of manna to millions of Israelites.
Those who live to eat become slave to food and the elements.
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Those who eat to live master nature and become successful in life
Here are some people destroyed because of food:
1. Esau,
2. The sons of Eli (Hophni and Phineas),
3. Israel in the wilderness
To live for food without commensurate spiritual development is to be opened to
1. Spiritual attack
2. Poverty
3. Lost of birthright – Dominion
2. Sex
1 Corinthians 6:13 KJV
…. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Our body is created not for sex but for serving the Lord.
Food and sex are good but they have their place and use.
To abuse our body through sex is to be set for a down life of shame and weakness.
One of the most weakening force is sex.
Remember Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of sexual impurity.
You cannot be sexually impure and be spiritually powerful.
Sex doesn’t bring meaning to life.
Instead, when you find meaning then would sex be useful to your life.
Don’t you wonder about the dead.
Upon being declared dead, the sex organ which is so much celebrated becomes nothing and within a short time decay.
Though the media such as the TV, radio and internet may promote sexually explicit contents, it is to your wisdom to flee.
The Bible says: Flee every appearance of evil.
Remember sex out of marriage takes meaning out of your life. It leads to confusion.
3. Money
Money also doesn’t give meaning to life. Money is mere transactional tool for life fulfilment.
The use Money outside purpose and meaning further degrade us.
Abuse of money leads to pride of life.
Money isn’t given as a tool by which we measure success or compete or compare ourselves with ourselves.
To pursue money making as the sole reason for living is to become idolatrous…
This is the worshipping of money as a god
Matthew 6:24 KJV
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
The more we are inclined to money the more we lose sight of God.
And when we lose sight of God we live life of vanity and emptiness
Life outside God is vanity.
1 Timothy 6:10,17 KJV
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. [17] Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
The love of money takes us out of a life of meaning.
The love of money takes away joy and happiness.
Everyone that loves money are never happy no matter how much they have
There’s that looming fear of greed and not enough.
This is why many of our politicians keep amassing wealth even beyond what they need… A demon has taken over their reasons and judgement.
They love money above purpose, service and life of meaning. So they are given reprobate minds
4. *Success
No matter what we become or achieve without purpose or meaning, it becomes utterly useless.
The reason is that one day, all the earthly success shall come to an end.
A professor no matter the number of academic award cannot take his brain to heaven.
A celebrity also ends being celebrated at most at death.
And no matter what you think you achieved, somebody is coming to overtake you.
All is vanity.
Whatever success we achieve here on earth without God is nothing.
Whatever amount of money we have somebody else is coming to take possession of it.
Unrestricted sex leads to making oneself cheap, a degradation of one’s soul
This brings us to the question:
Then what is life?.
How do we bring meaning to life?
How do we become eternally joyful?
This we will continue to look into next week
God bless you all for following.
May God give meaning to our lives in Jesus name
