When Life Feel Meaningless

Ownership Doesn’t Equal Inclusion

Take a guess… How many running shoes are sold world wide every year? It is estimated that over 1 Billion are sold!

That is a bunch of of people running bunches of miles assuming that all of those shoes are being used for running. But we know the reality is that buying the shoes doesn’t put you in the race right!

Check this out,

I own the guitar, I love the idea of a guitar, I love the look and feel of a guitar, I love watching people play a guitar, i love going to guitar shops and looking at guitars but me simply owning this guitar doesn’t make me part of the band, actually it doesn’t even give me the ability of playing guitar! Seriously, i can play like the intro riff of about 3 or four songs and that is a wrap!

My point is Ownership doesn’t equal Inclusion

Sept 9, 2014

Anyone know the significance of that date?

That is the release date of the video game Destiny 1. As many of you know I am and has always been an avid player of video games! Look at this! (Picture of me playing from childhood)

Back to Destiny.... Destiny dropped with alot of hype, but shooters are not really my thing so I don’t tend to play shooters, but I saw rory playing and it looked really fun, so about 8 months after release I picked up my own copy of Destiny.

Now fast forward to early 2017, the game designers for Destiny started to slow support of the game down and started moving on to Destiny 2 which would drop in October of 2017.

So while sitting there one night playing Destiny 1 I looked up my play time in the game.... I can’t remember the exact hour count but it was over 750 hours..... I think almost 800 hours of play time.....

Anyone know how may days 750 hours is....? Over 1 month of play time.... if you were to group all my play time into one session you would have to sit there and play straight for over 1 month!

I sat there that night and was like WOW! Awesome… then I was like wow.... Really!

One whole month of nothing but a game.... what a waste.... how pointless can this be!

Maybe in your life you have felt someone like this, maybe not with a game but maybe a sport, constant practice, running laps or running drills, or maybe time spent going to school, day in and day out, learning the same stuff year after year.... maybe even coming here to youth or church… hearing the same message about God and the Bible, just maybe there is something in your life that makes you go wow.... really.... seems a bit pointless....

How many times have you been in this room?

1 year in youth, just counting WNL we average about 40 nights a year for 1.5 hours. That is 60 hours,

2 years = 120 hours

3 years = 180 hours

4 years = 240 hours

5 years = 300 hours

6 years = 360 hours

For those who have been in youth here for 6 years that is how much time you have spent just in Youth Group.

Over that time I am sure in your mind, maybe not out loud you asked.... Why?

The Book of Ecclesiastes answers questions about meaning in this life by exposing the pointless nature of viewing life only from a worldly perspective.

Think about my time with Destiny.... Pointless????? 750+ hours.....

From a worldly perspective yes! But I remembered when I was thinking about these hours that the majority of these hours was spent playing the game with my son. It was many hours spent laughing and exploring and challenging each other, it was time spent with him showing this old guy up and then a few times me showing him that his dad can hang! It was many nights where we were I was able to introduce him to my old high school friends who we played with as well, it was nights that ended with he and I talking about bigger things in life than friday night game night… Pointless.... nope.... not at all.

The same is true about drills in sports, or days in school, or coming to youth group over and over again....

What did you have for supper on this day on month ago? one year ago? 5 years ago....?

Was those meals pointelss?

Life is a collection of meals, we don’t remember them all but they all grow us to where we are today.