What if this is all there is?
"Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important. And that hunger for significance - a drive as intense as our need for oxygen - doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God, because he wants each of us to understand how important we are."
"Why then do most modern people carry with them an aching void - a pain that will not go away until we find the answer to our search for dignity? The emptiness we feel cannot be relieved by one more gourmet meal or another snort of cocaine. We carry water in a sieve when we try to fill the empty space with a better job or a bigger house."
The Hunger for Significance by R.C. Sproul
Then there's the line from the movie, "What if this is as good as it gets?"
The preacher in Ecclesiastes has the answer - EVERYthing is in vain, until we love and fear the Lord, then... everything is valuable.
posted by Roy B. @ 8:24 AM
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2 Comments:
...a chasing after the wind. I am glad that this isn't as good as it gets. I would surely get tired!
Was thinking about the fingers/sand concept. People trying to find significance for themselves are often the ones who never do, while those who seek to add it to others' lives are the ones who never seem to be lacking of it in their own life. We always hear of some guy who "lived a quiet life" and then several thousand show up to his funeral and every one of them has a story to tell of how he made them feel "valued" or "important" (i.e. "significant")
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