Missing the Point
Oct 29th, 2008 by ljkim
It’s sometimes easy to miss the point of things… Many of the best people go through life wondering what *the point* of it is. In High School English students struggle and fake answers to what the point or the theme of a book or a poem is. In graduate school students sometimes use critical statistical analysis to try to determine the point of a piece of writing. All this to say that it’s easy sometimes to miss the point of something.
I think the point of life is to connect with God. I get a little depressed when I’m in a “good” church meeting (a meeting people think was “good”), where people are happy, but there’s no evidence of connecting with God.
Connecting with God is always odd, it’s by definition “supernatural” so it tends to do things to people: When Hannah connected with God (in 1 Samuel), she got over a period of deep depression almost instantly. When Isaiah encountered God, he lost his pride almost instantly. When Jeremiah encountered God he became courageous in his preaching. When the early church encountered God people started to love people they had nothing in common with. These were all different marks of people connecting with God. And so the question is “Are you connecting?” Is there evidence that God’s mercy has broken into your soul? Or are you looking for a happiness and satisfaction apart from this? In which case you might have missed the point.