Meaning Of Life

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The meaning of life, what a deep and important question that many of the people do not ask, and many don’t have a genuine answer to. This will be the topic of this paper, and I will try to answer this question as honestly and genuinely as I can. Whenever I am thinking of the meaning of life, the first thing come to my mind is thinking of why God created me and gave me life from the beginning. And I will have a confession here, since I was in junior high this question was always popping in my mind, till one day I was reading about the liturgical prayer of the church and it mentioned one of the names of God “ the Lover of Mankind” and my first part of the question is answered to me, as I realized that God Gave me Life because he loved me. Then I kept asking myself so what ? can you elaborate more, is there any purpose for this life? Is there any meaning for living this tough life as one of the philosophers said “ Man is born in the darkness of womb, walking through the darkness of the world, buried in the darkness of the tomb”, definitely just living in a life like this is depressing. Finally I found the answer in the bible in the epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians “ for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10). Only then, I comprehended a meaning and a goal for my life. Since God created me because of his love to me and all the mankind , then my life is God’s Gift to me, and how I am going to live this life is my gift back to God. Since then, I did not think much about this question again. I had another question is how I am going to do the good works that God have prepared for me to walk in them?. Studying this master is one of the works that god clearly answered my prayers of what shall I do next in my service?. Coming to the existential point of view about the

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