Discovering Meaning in the Mundane // From Vanity to Victory, Part 2

<p>Let’s face it – 90 per cent of life is about the mundane. The day to day realities of putting food on the table, raising a family, all that stuff. And one day we wake up and ask ourselves, “So this is it? This is all there is?” Where’s the meaning, where’s the sense of direction and purpose in life?</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Wealth Doesn’t Work</strong></span></h3> <p>Man, I wish I was a singer. If you heard me sing you may not wish the same thing. But the reason I wish I was a singer is that singers who sing songs we like, when they get on the radio and they sing a song we’ve heard before we go, "Great, I’m really looking forward to hearing this song again." When a guy like me who talks rather than sings gets on, and talks about something you’ve heard him talk about before, we screw up our faces and say, "Hasn’t that guy talked about that before?" And so that’s my prelude to telling you I’m going to be talking about something you may have heard me talk about before. Not because I feel the need to repeat myself, but because it’s important and it fits in to what we’re talking about in this series called, <em>"From Vanity to Victory"</em>.</p> <p>What we’ve been chatting about so far in this series is this sense that so many people have that their life has no real purpose. The sun comes up every day and sets every night – same old, same old, same old. And you work hard and you do your best and you go through the good times and then some bad times. And you get toward the end of your life, and as King Solomon did, you say to yourself:</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Vanity of vanities, says the teacher. Vanity of vanities – all this is vanity. What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun?</em></p> <p>And right now we’re going to take a look at one of the places we go looking for meaning, only to discover after a lifetime of looking there that there’s no meaning there at all. So where is that place? Let me begin by sharing with you the circumstances in w