What Connects the Dots?

We spend our lives accumulating points in time – school, jobs, promotions, cars, houses – and then one day we stop and ask: what was it all for? Solomon asked the same question after acquiring everything a man could want. He wrote, "Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." (Ecclesiastes 1:2) And he was right – if life is only a collection of events and possessions, it is hollow. But life was never meant to be a string of disconnected dots. The meaning is found in the lines drawn between them – in the relationships, the connections, the love shared along the way. Jesus made this unmistakably clear when a man asked which commandment mattered most. He replied, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" (Matthew 22:37-39) Then he added, "All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." (Matthew 22:40) Everything – every ritual, every activity, every opportunity – exists to give us a chance to love God and love people. The irony is that the point of life is not found in the points of life. It is found in what we do between them. Our dash of time on earth is measured not in what we acquired, but in who we loved. (Craig B). Open Bible – bit.ly/Ecc1v2, bit.ly/Mat22v37-39, bit.ly/Mat22v40