Not everyone agrees that our lives have meaning
Famous atheist Bertrand Russell said in his book “Why I am not a Christian” that, “Religions are both harmful and untrue.” He also concluded that if life beyond the grave is a myth, then life before the grave has no meaning.
One of the greatest gifts I believe that God gave us, is free will. Consequently, He will never force anyone to spend eternity with Him in heaven when they die.
God also gave each one of us the right to choose our baseline for identifying truth. A good question to ask an atheist is, “If Christianity were true, would you believe in it?” The reality for most people who reject Jesus and His offer to pay for their sins if they would repent and become born again … is that it’s more of a heart issue than it is a head issue. Most atheist simply don’t want Christianity to be true!
The Apostle Paul’s baseline for identifying truth was clearly Jesus! Here’s what he said surrounding having meaning for his life in Philippians 3:6-11:
“I was so zealous that I harshly persecuted the church. And as for righteousness, I obeyed the law without fault. I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith. I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!”
May we all similarly put our trust completely in Jesus, and never forget what 1 John 3:2 says … “Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.”