What Is Life?

What Is Life?

Some describe life as a story in the mouth of a fool signifying nothing, while Shakespeare said, "the world is a stage and men and women are mere actors on that stage."

What is your own metaphor for life? For example, is life a party, is life a race, or is life wicked or unfair? Time has proven that one's view of life influence how he or she lives.

If you see life as a party then you will live your life partying. If you view life as unfair then you will live life hating life and having negative emotions. Unfortunately, one’s view of life always becomes self-fulfilling, except where God just shows mercy

What then is life?

Even as this appears to be a simple but fundamental question, I encourage you to personalize the question and ask, "What is my life?" Unfortunately, most people do not find the right answer until it is too late.

Without understanding, life becomes an endless pursuit as it is with most people. We always have something to pursue. We set a goal, we wake up; follow the routine until we go to bed at night. The next day, we start all over again. Then once our goal is achieved, man continues in pursuit of even more. Sadly, what we pursue is a mirage. The earlier we discover that a life of pursuits is a mirage, the better our living will be.

Whatever we posses, cars, money, fame, houses, wisdom, beauty etc., someone else has either better or more. Strangely for many of us, the discovery that someone has more or better sets us up for another pursuit

My answer to the question, what is life is that we cannot find life outside God our creator. It is only in Him that we can discover our purpose and be fully equipped to walk through life successfully.

So, a search for life is a search for purpose and who best to ask but the creator of man.

I hope you find your purpose this week, and for those who have, may this week count positively in your life’s journey.