Meaningless!

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"The Teacher in Ecclesiastes says it this way: "Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless under the sun." Powerful words that every parent needs to consider. If you cut off the heavens, if you act as if God doesn't exist, everything loses its meaning. If you only look at life horizontally, all things lose their meaning. The Teacher in Ecclesiastes says that all labor, all wisdom, all achievement, all pleasure, all success, and all toil are utterly meaningless unless connected to God. If there is no God who is glorious and good, who rules the earth, who has a plan, and whose will is to be done, there is no reason for anything. Why think, work, obey, love, study, discuss, serve, or give? Why? Why? All of life blows into a chaotic mass of meaningless choices unless it is rooted in the one fact that makes every other fact make sense - GOD. This truth must dye every encounter with our children as red dye permeates every fiber of a white cloth dipped into it."

-- From "Age of Opportunity - A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens" by Paul David Tripp