The meaning of life
What is the meaning of life? It is an allegory, life symbolizes that which is spiritual: it is a shadow of good things to come.
Life is like a newborn child, everything it tastes, touches, sees, it learns from. Sometimes what a child tastes, it may not be ready for or what it touches, may not be safe enough but its mother is there to see to it that he or she is not endangered and that the milk he or she receives is adequate for its growth and development. Then as long as the child has a healthy desire to learn and feed, it will grow into maturity and a well-rounded individual.
So it is then with this life. We who are spiritual are like spiritual newborns; tasting and touching the things of this life that help us to learn of the spiritual. Indeed:
Psalms 19:"1. The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork.2. Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge.
3. There is no speech nor language; Their voice is not heard.
4. Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,"
Acts 14:17, 17. And yet He left not himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
ACTS17: 26-27, 26. and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;
27. that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:
It is alleged that life is unfair but that is largely unsubstantiated. And though it would be fairer to say that life is no respecter of persons, it has proven beneficial in its impartiality. In that where there is life there is hope and, where there is hope there is faith! So now we walk by faith and not by sight, because it is not in man that walks to direct his own steps. Neither do we live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Therefore we desire the sincere milk of the word that we might grow thereby and we set our hearts on things above seeking first the kingdom of God.
To the carnally minded person life is about gathering its daily bread, building bigger barns to store his worldly goods and eating, drinking and being merry for, who knows? Tomorrow he may die. But the spiritually minded considers the things of the Spirit of God. He finds, in the reliability of the celestial objects to the diligence of the lowly ants the workings of God. He redeems the time wisely, enduring "affliction with the people of God rather than the passing pleasures of sin." After all, do we not learn obedience to God by the things that we suffer here?
Remember this, this life is just a proving ground. At the end some of us will be proved precious like silver and gold is refined in the fire. While some like stubble and waste is only destroyed.
If we look at this life from the proper perspective then we will realize the full meaning of the following passage:
ROMANS 8:18-21: 18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.19. For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.
20. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope
Walter21. that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.