Friday, 12/12/08, 9:33 AM EST USA
First let me say that this is different from the meaning of life. The meaning is that God is building His Church with Christ as the Cornerstone and His elected as the bricks.

But what life is about is very simple indeed - it is about being wiped like a dog and accepting it. No more and no less. No matter how much the world mistreats you (me) you (I) have to accept it and allow God to do His work - on all of us. So focusing on worldly interests is off the mark. Seeking higher pay; a higher degree; a better home; more friends - anything having to do with the world is off the mark.

Biblical evidence for this is in passages about us being as sheep; gaining our lives; seek God; living by faith (not by things); being blinded by the world; etc.

So live life with your mind heart and soul focused on what God wants - not on the world - which leads to temptation and sin and then death.

May God richly bless you and yours, in Jesus' name, amen.

Saturday, 12/13/08, 4:59 PM EST USA
I just realized this and had to add it - it's not your life. In other words, God is Sovereign, His rule is supreme. So we must accept what it is that God decides for us. We have to accept that all of the universe, including our paltry little insignificant lives, belong to The One True Living LORD God Almighty. (Please note that I mean this for myself as well - I am not even remotely close to being a good Christian (and no one of us is sinless) but nonetheless, I thought better it be said than left as a personal realization ... and I like to share anything I learn).