Ephesians 1:3-14

What is the meaning of life?

Why is it that we exist? Or to put it in the immortal words of Douglas Adams, “what is the meaning of life?” If you ask Google, which I did, various answers come up. Wikipedia has quite the interesting collection of responses to this question, starting with the Greek philosophical tradition, but also including scientific attempts to answer the question. The next “hit” on google comes from a Psychology Today article from 2018. They answer the question in a typical modernist way: you have to decide what the meaning of life is for yourself.

The Christian tradition gives us a different picture altogether.…