Porch Talks: What Gives Meaning to My Life - the Love of God

What gives meaning to my present life is Christ – the love of God revealed and given in Him. 

• What gives meaning to this life is Christ, as the Word that became flesh. 
• Already before the fall into sin, He gave meaning to life as the eternal Word. 
• In that Word, which was in the beginning, was life – that is, the true life of fellowship with God; 
• and that life is the light of men (John 1:4). 

That Word which gave God’s fellowship to men, gave sense and meaning to life, 

• and He, the eternal Word, enabled me also to understand the meaning of life, 
• and thus let the light shine in life. 

Through the break with and separation from God the significance and the knowledge of the essence of my life is gone. 

• It has pleased God however, that Christ as the Word that became flesh would again give meaning to life and reveal that meaning to me. 
• The fullness of God’s love is in Christ and in association with it life again gains its full realization.

Thus, the solution of the life’s oppressive burden is in this, 

• that I belong to Jesus Christ: 
• that He is mine and I am His. 

This relationship is possible only because He bought me with His blood. 

• This connection and association exists, however, because of the will of God, 
• Who has given Christ to me and through the Holy Spirit incorporated me into Christ. 

In that relationship Christ actively gives my life meaning 

• by making God’s love flow to me opening my heart for it 
• and making my love respond to His love. 

Therefore – and it is the only remedy – 

• all possibilities that were dead, are made alive again in my heart and now become realities. 
• My life, in which all opportunity was cut off by sin, regains its full potential again – 
• and it is more than a chance! – since there is the promise as well as the fulfillment of that promise.
• Thus Christ is working in me, bringing to life all that was dead. 

Adapted Excerpt from The True Life by Simon G. De Graaf