Man's Search For Meaning Essay

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Victor frankle was a victim of the Nazi regime, and he went in to a Nazi concentration camp, in Auschwitz, and both of his parents had passed away. So in this camp, he was literally withering away and thousands of others around him were being murdered. He was pondering the current state of his life. He wrote this book, man’s search for Meaning, its super interesting! In the book, you can read his mind searching for a meaning in all of the death and suffering and all of the apparent meaninglessness that was surrounding him in this concentration camp. This was his conclusion to the story: “life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as for I believed, or a quest for power as Alfred asler taught., but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for a person is to find meaning in his or her life. “ This story really sticks to my heart, and I’m sure yours as well. They hit that little feeling nerve, right? Make your stomach feel a little weird? Don’t worry; you can admit it, its normal. Because, if were completely honest with each other, we have all questioned before, “What is the meaning of all of this? Why am I here? There has got to be more to life than just this!” We want our lives to count for more than something! None of us crave meaninglessness. We all fear nothingness and emptiness more than anything else. What are YOU depending on to make your life worth living? Work, pleasure, beauty, pursuit of wisdom, accomplishments, efforts, money? What gets you out of bed each day is what you’re living for. (PAUSE) What is your functional savior? As Christians you’re probably sitting here and you know what to say. Right? We all know the Sunday school answer. My meaning is Jesus. These are the big questions that Ecclesiastes asks u... ... middle of paper ... .... But we go with everything else under the sun, to bring us meaning and life and purpose. The things that we are pursuing will melt away, and none of the things under the sun will ever fully satisfy. We will always be looking for the next extreme. I got tired of looking for that next extreme! I got tired of looking for the meaning of life, and pursuing these meaningless trivial things that were meaningless, vanity. If you’re done searching for things that will never satisfy, and you’re ready for that one true meaning of life, I encourage you to pray with someone tonight. Or if you know Christ, and you have drifted away, and sought after trivial things that will fade away while the one true God remains, pray it out! As Marcos plays the music, just take this time to reflect, the altar is here for you, it’s a powerful place to meet God here with someone!

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