What’s the point? Life Magazine asked Yale’ Sterling Prof of Humanity Harold Bloom to say something about “the meaning of life“ – Bloom said “If I could offer anyone wisdom on the subject of life’s purpose, it would be this: Confront the absolute meaninglessness of existence and find the stoicism and self-control to go on in the face of it....there is a fundamental meaninglessness to life and all a person can do is keep on going”. The good news is 225 people in Life’ book including Michael Jackson, Jack Kervorkain, B.B. King, Yoko Ono, Oprah Winfrey and Prof. Bloom got it wrong. There is a point to life. There is meaning to our existence. There is a reason to go on! Our meaning is found in an ugly? smelly? uneducated, blue collar worker with not a degree to his name….oh the shame of it! The meaning of life, the point to our existence, your reason to go on is Jesus of Nazareth. Is Jesus the meaning of life because he was a great moral teacher? No! Or a great social reformer? No! What about a wise philosopher? No! Jesus isn’t the point of life because he was a great anything. Jesus is the meaning of mankind’s existence because he was, is and always will be God in the flesh. And when Jesus confessed that truth we the human family brutally murdered him. John 5:16-18 John 8:58, John 10:30-33, Mk 14:62 When they hurled their insults at him, he didn’t retaliate. When Jesus suffered, he made no threats. When they spat in Jesus face and beat him he remained silent. When they mockingly clothed the Christ in purple, driving the thorns into his head he didn’t fight back. When they took what was left of him and nailed him to a piece of wood, calling him to save himself he didn’t. Why? Simple - He was busy saving you, me and them. The Nazi’s ordered the Jews up before sunrise and made them dig trenches. In the freezing cold morning, malnourished, half naked, without tools they labored in 14 hour shifts. When these exhausted souls slowed down the child like bully boys beat and abused them screaming – work harder! Work harder! Those who collapsed were summarily executed with a single shot to the back of the head. While day light lasted the living where mercilessly driven on - worker harder, work harder! Before sunrise they ordered them back to the trenches, into the mud and the blood. Beating, cursing and killing screaming they made them fill the trenches in again. Why? Breaking these victims by a meaningless and pointlessness existence. How many of us wake up every morning hearing the same screamed out order “work harder, work harder”? We grind out the days watching our manically depressed loved ones “finding their stoicism and self control” in another hopeless bottle of pills. We frantically work harder, slowly realizing we’re living the same pointless existence but of course we’re just “social drinkers”. Like a gerbil on a wheel going no where, our only hope is a 3rd expensive but fleeting vacation a year. Then we’ll enter our retirement rest living out our “golden years” in quite desperation, pottering around the garden, pursuing hobbies that long a go lost their luster. Don’t forget to make sure that plot is paid for and the will is up to date. Jesus Christ crucified and raised from the dead tells us it doesn’t have to be that way! Christ came that we might have life and that to the full. Life that isn’t pointless, life that isn’t meaningless, life full of purpose in the midst of the pain filled world. Life that doesn’t end with you in a box and lawyers fighting over the spoils! This eternal life is found in Jesus Christ nailed to the cross. God in the flesh, mankind’ Savior, teaching us how to live, die and overcome death. Someone says “Prove that!” I ask “why bother?” For goodness sake you know Christ died for you. You know life is found in the resurrected Christ. If it’s not true why does talk of His cross bother you so? Why does this insignificant carpenter keep you awake at night....?
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:39:05 +0000
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