'WHAT I FEAR MOST IS ABSURDITY'

I love this quote – today’s title - from Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' (1981).
 
We pursue meaning more than anything else. When we break it down, even in our pursuit of health, wealth and love, we are seeking to 'mean', so that we do finally rest, when we 'rest in peace'. I don't mean to be morbid here, but the only way to 'come to life' is through death and resurrection, so let's not fear the topic for a minute...
 
Think about it: what are you trying to grasp today that you did not 'bag' yesterday? Seriously, why were you not ready to die last night, and what are you chasing today? Meaning (not money, actually). And eternal life. Yes, if you think about it, to 'rest in peace' in our little minds is really to somehow defy death at the point of death and live in bliss for all eternity. Peace is not death, and nor is rest. And to rest in peace is the highest attainment of life and not death. We are all chasing meaning, and to live eternally, or rest in peace now and forevermore.
 
Let's skip many spheres and aspects and respects and vantage points here and cut to the chase - or cut the chase short: Jesus came to give you meaning, now and forevermore. If you do not really understand the simple, raw, rough and radical message that is set out in the Gospel, I invite you - challenge you - to pick up one of the accounts written by Matthew, Mark, Luke or John, and read it through. A one hour commitment, that could walk you through the door God offers you to meaning and eternal life (John 10:9).