EUREKA! THE ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
“For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.” Colossians 1:16
I truly believe that today I will speak the most important thing you could ever hear in your life. Here it is:
The reason for our existence is ONLY found in our Creator, our God.
To put it another way, the “missing link” of our existence is found in God.
In other words, that emptiness, those unanswered questions, the lack of understanding of things that seem to make no sense in life:
· Why we lose people,
· Why we work so much,
· Why life is always full of challenges,
· Why when we reach the peak of maturity we can no longer fully enjoy life because we are too old and too tired,
· Why life is hard and seems to grow harder with time,
· Why we are born surrounded by people who love us and the natural tendency is to end our lives almost in solitude,
· Why we do not feel completely happy,
· Why there is so much suffering in the world,
· Why we feel so powerless to help everyone
…and the question that has run through human history and gave birth to the existentialist philosophical movement:
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?
We will only be able to experience true fulfillment in our lives when we understand this and draw near to Him, for whom we were created. He is the reason for our existence.
“For from him and through him and to him are all things…” Romans 11:36
And it is not me saying this. It is Him! He spoke this clearly to my heart on Monday night. But He has also shared this truth with many others—thinkers, scholars, and those who seek Him:
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Christian theologian.
“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of man which only God can fill.”
St. Augustine (354–430)
Early Christian theologian and philosopher, Bishop of Hippo
“You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.”
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)
Danish philosopher, theologian, and existentialist thinker.
“Man only becomes whole when he dares to make the leap of faith toward his Creator.”
Fiódor Dostoevsky (1821–1881)
Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher.
“Without God, life loses not only its meaning but also its value.”
C.S. Lewis (1898–1963)
British writer, theologian, and Christian apologist.
“God cannot give us peace and happiness apart from Himself, because that does not exist.”
Rick Warren (1954– )
American pastor and author.
“You were created by God and for God, and until you live for Him, your life will have no meaning.”
“The emptiness you feel can never be filled by the things of this world; it can only be filled by God.”
Karl Barth (1886–1968)
Swiss Reformed theologian
“Man cannot understand himself without God.”
Timothy Keller (1950–2023)
American pastor, theologian, and author.
“If God does not exist, suffering has no meaning. If He exists, even suffering can be redemptive.”
And I could quote many more, including non-Christian thinkers and even atheists.
Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher
“There must be a first cause, itself uncaused, which is the ultimate reason for all that exists.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)
Rationalist philosopher
“God is the cause of all things, and all things are in God.”
Al-Ghazali (1058–1111)
A Muslim theologian, philosopher, jurist, and Sufi mystic
“Man’s ultimate purpose is to know God and return to Him.”
Ibn Arabi (1165–1240)
Sufi mystic
“Everything exists through God and nothing exists except by God.”
Yet, if it’s still hard to understand, I can say that I don’t speak this from what I have read, but from what I live and have seen.
I experience every day the fullness that the Lord gives us, even in the midst of struggles and pain. I have seen many people experience it as well.
But believing alone is not enough.
You know that feeling of being in the arms of someone you love, or holding someone you love in your arms? You could stay there for hours. It fills you. It touches you. It warms you.
Now imagine when we lose that. An emptiness. An irreparable pain. A sense of being incomplete.
Now place this on a spiritual level—far more sublime and profound than anything we have ever experienced in human love.
Being separated from this love is torment, pain, and constant uncertainty.
We need to RELATE to God!
Let’s try to understand what “relationship” means. I was trying to find a way to illustrate it.
When I arrived here two years ago, you were strangers to me. Even though I had heard good things about you and we had some contact through online messages and emails about you praying for our arrival, I didn’t really know you yet.
Then we began sitting together every Sunday morning, visiting one another’s homes, and sharing information about ourselves and our families. I entered your lives, and you entered mine. Today, you know much more about me, and I know much more about you. Today, I know more about your feelings and your pain, and you know more about mine. After all, we have built a relationship—and it grows more each day.
That is how human life works. That is how it happens in our families and friendships. Every experience lived, every conversation, every moment increases our intimacy.
So why is it that God—the only One capable of completely filling us—is someone we only hear about on Sundays, someone who occasionally hears my voice in prayer when I make a few requests, someone who is there while I am here?
You need to share your joys, sorrows, fears, uncertainties, and victories with Him. He needs to sit in the car with you. He needs to cook beside you. You need to hear more about Him and through Him.
You need to have a relationship with Him. He is your Father. Jesus came to show us this and to teach us how to live it.
If you learn to engage with Him more deeply, in the same way you relate to your mother, spouse, or children, you will never be the same—and everything that seems meaningless in your life or in the world will find its meaning in Him.
Do you have a relationship with Him?
Dani Caldeira