Most Beloved Savior, You put into motion the creation that I see all around me. You have given me the gift of life and the ability to choose so I can determine what my future will hold. The experiences I encounter in my life are for the purpose of pointing me in the direction of true happiness in You. In my life You are trying to direct my hopes to the only One who can fulfill them … You! The things I experience … knowledge, relationships, work, and pleasure … have their proper place in my life, but so do You. To maintain my bearings, I must realize that all the things I experience on the earth are temporal and my real focus must be on the eternal. You have given me the bitterness of learning through experience that a life without You is filled with pain, sorrow, disappointment, and emptiness. I am beginning to see that inclusion of You in my life and living for You are my true purpose on earth.
What do I gain from my labors if they are not done for You? If I live for myself, my eyes never get enough seeing and my ears enough hearing. What I have done is done and cannot be changed. Sometimes I feel like my life is spent chasing the wind. With the wisdom of the world comes disappointment and with its knowledge comes grief. I have sought pleasure and it did not fulfill. I sought wealth, but it could not buy me happiness. And while I strived to make much of my life, everything seems meaningless in filling the void within me. It seemed that all the things I strived for would soon be forgotten and left behind. Even though I have tried many things and achieved my share of successes in the world, I have found that nothing apart from You can make me content. I wish I could do something to spare others the hardship of “learning the hard way”, but I cannot.
Life is filled with many things and there is a time for everything. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. A time to build and a time to tear down. A time for happiness and a time for sorrow. A time to speak and a time to be silent. A time for peace and a time for disagreement. There are both struggles and freedom in life. You have put a desire within every man to be united with You and it is up to each of us to choose to include You in our lives. I am so glad that in surrounding my life with You, I now can see with eyes that see and hear with ears that hear the meaningful things of life. My empty life has taken on meaning because You are real and Your love has given me a calling and a purpose. When I seek the meaning of life I see it in devotion to You, service to others, and taking my place in Your Kingdom. And it’s in Jesus’ name I pray. AMEN!!
Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that everything God does endures forever, nothing can be added to it or nothing can be taken from it.