WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?
by Fred Lowery
Scripture: ACTS 17:28, ECCLESIASTES 3:11, JOHN 2:15, LUKE 12:15, MATTHEW 5:6
What Is The Meaning of Life?
Fred Lowery
How many opportunities, how many unique things that we have had available to us in this country. What great opportunities! What great pleasures and when you read the surveys you will find that today in America people believed that 50 years ago we were actually happier.
As far as things that mattered we had things better 50 years ago. Because of technology and all of the things that are available to us today we are still not happy. We are filled but we are not fulfilled. We are gratified but we are not satisfied. Barbara Striesand has a song that talks about staying too long at the fair and it is a story of a little girl that stays all day long at the fair. But it is more than that, the deeper meaning involves those who live their lives chasing thrills, living for the moment, living for pleasure and then when it is all over having nothing to show for it. A part of that song says the merry go round is beginning to taunt me. Have I stayed too long at the fair? There is nothing to win and nobody to want me, have I stayed too long at the fair? I think the realistic look at America is to say we have stayed too long at the fair.
We are not happy and our lives are empty. But it is a great opportunity for Christians because the world is hurting and the world feels empty and unfulfilled and we and we alone have the answer. Because there is no answer outside of Jesus Christ. There was a man playing a piano at the bar. Night after night he played that piano. He got to thinking, surely there is more to life than this. Night after night the samepatrons, the same people, and here I am playing this piano, the same songs. So he got to thinking about surely there is more to life than this. So he started asking people. What is the meaning of life? And the various people he would ask would say I don't know. Man they were clueless. We don't have any idea what the meaning of life is. But he kept asking night ...
Fred Lowery
How many opportunities, how many unique things that we have had available to us in this country. What great opportunities! What great pleasures and when you read the surveys you will find that today in America people believed that 50 years ago we were actually happier.
As far as things that mattered we had things better 50 years ago. Because of technology and all of the things that are available to us today we are still not happy. We are filled but we are not fulfilled. We are gratified but we are not satisfied. Barbara Striesand has a song that talks about staying too long at the fair and it is a story of a little girl that stays all day long at the fair. But it is more than that, the deeper meaning involves those who live their lives chasing thrills, living for the moment, living for pleasure and then when it is all over having nothing to show for it. A part of that song says the merry go round is beginning to taunt me. Have I stayed too long at the fair? There is nothing to win and nobody to want me, have I stayed too long at the fair? I think the realistic look at America is to say we have stayed too long at the fair.
We are not happy and our lives are empty. But it is a great opportunity for Christians because the world is hurting and the world feels empty and unfulfilled and we and we alone have the answer. Because there is no answer outside of Jesus Christ. There was a man playing a piano at the bar. Night after night he played that piano. He got to thinking, surely there is more to life than this. Night after night the samepatrons, the same people, and here I am playing this piano, the same songs. So he got to thinking about surely there is more to life than this. So he started asking people. What is the meaning of life? And the various people he would ask would say I don't know. Man they were clueless. We don't have any idea what the meaning of life is. But he kept asking night ...
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