What is the meaning of life? Truly, answer my question reader, what is the answer to all of this? What is the greatest good for mankind? What is the explanation you would give to a child who asked you any one of these foundational questions? How did you react to this confrontation? The problem is that one’s answer can have serious consequences not only for themselves, but the entire world. Just think about it, imagine being a child and wanting to know the why of it all, the answer you receive from your most reliable authority figures will undoubtedly have a lasting effect on how you make decisions throughout the rest of your life. In fact, all anyone has to do is look at your life, how you talk, how you carry yourself, how you eat, how you dress, how you make your decisions, in order to get a sense of your worldview. Now apply this principle to an entire nation, and realize how influential belief truly is. We are talking about the pre-suppositions one relegates to whenever they are faced with a choice, the core mandates that inform all of our actions. In a word, your answer was probably mediocre and unsatisfactory. I’m being blunt because it’s these lukewarm answers that have brought forth the moral and spiritual problems we’re faced with today, especially in the West. I’ve asked you for your answer and without even knowing what it was I deemed it worthless, and evidence of the spiritual sickness of Western nations. You showed me yours, I’ll show you mine. God made you. The omnipotent one who inhabits eternity consciously and intentionally put you where you are now. He has carried you through your entire life, not only you, but all of your ancestors to. All cause and effect are ordained and foreknown by him, to bring about the plan he’s had since before the heavens and the earth were formed. You are a part of that plan. You are here to do his will. You are free to do this either willingly and live, or defect to live a life of pain and suffering, then die knowing your actions were turned to the furtherance of his purpose anyway. Finally, and most importantly, God sent his Son into the world as a reconciling sacrifice for the sins of all who would believe in him. God loves you. Notice I’m telling you why you’re here, what you’re supposed to do, and why you’re supposed to do it. My answer ascribes significance to your thoughts, speech and deeds, and implores you to make them good. Regardless of how you like my correct answer, at least in mine you matter. If you don’t like being told the truth, what would you prefer the truth to be? Would you rather that you and your actions here were worthless? Does possessing such a world view make you feel better about yourself because in yours there’s no such thing as sin? Or maybe you would rather envision God as a tyrant simply because evil exists, in intentional disregard for all of the good experiences you’ve had. Again I’m speculating, but hey, I could be right. Either way, the overarching point here is that the lens through which you view the world affects how you operate here, the way you affect the world reflects how you view the world. Further, if you were told your life has meaning you will act like it, and if you were told that your life is a product of random chance then you’ll embody that worldview as well, the third option being “I don’t know”, which will result in a non-committal and compromising disposition. One’s morality is a result of these presuppositions, with those who believe in God having a coherent explanation for why the natural order is, and is to be adhered to, with those who don’t rejecting the existence of a natural order entirely, deeming morality itself to be subjective. On this note, with a flawed morality comes flawed priorities. Meaning, without a God centered life the greatest good for mankind becomes power or pleasure, which induces men to throw away whole decades doing what they’re not supposed to, erroneously believing fulfilment is to be found in the material plane. I write these words to intentionally shock you into realizing that the greatest good for mankind is not possession or power, but it’s a relationship with God that gives a man fulfilment in life, and not only fulfilment, but direction and purpose.