Comments on: The Meaning of Life, According to Jesus

By: Guido Panes

Guido Panes — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:17:55 +0000

Hi Lois, I read your article this 7th day of November 2025:
We are all in pursuit of happiness. We are all different and our lives are all different from each other. But our love of God (on our part; the Love for Jesus) is what “anchors” us in this journey through life.
AT this time in my life, I can say that “I lived a life well-lived” with my wife for 32 years. We are empty nesters now and our 3 sons are on their own. We tried to live our life as the Bible have thought us and we hope that our sons and their families will do the same.
It is also our hope and prayer that our world will be a lot kinder, saner and promising especially for our children and for all the young people who will grow up and inherit this world.

By: Lois Tverberg

Lois Tverberg — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:12:50 +0000

Tabitha, thanks for sharing. I’m glad to hear my Memory is Critical chapter was particularly helpful to you.

I recently wrote an article about Psalm 90 and did an interview with my pastor that was about meaning in life. You may enjoy those too. See this link:

https://ourrabbijesus.com/meditating-on-psalm-90-the-groundhog-day-movie-and-life/

By: Tabitha Gallman

Tabitha Gallman — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:26:35 +0000

Love this article about the meaning of life. After my husband died, it was hard knowing quite where I fit in and I didn’t feel like I had much meaning in my life. I just plainly and simply forgot everything I had absorbed from scriptures. I have read Lois’s three “Rabbi Jesus” books and in “Reading the Bible with Rabbi Jesus” (chapter 9) the chapter called: “Memory is Critical” is so good and helped me so much through some of my darkest times. These are the type of books that you should keep kinda like reference books. I re-read them because I don’t retain information as well as I used to.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:31:18 +0000

In reply to David Powell.

Well said David. Mortimer Adler fleshes this truth out a little further by adding “the moral quality” of a life well-lived. Also, that pursuit of happiness is a self-evident truth because it is not a means to an end, but an end in itself–you can’t say “I want to be happy in order to get X.” But these things are as far as Greek/Western Civ could take us. It requires Christ to take us beyond happiness, not only to joy but also to meaning, as Lois points out, which is almost synonymous with purpose. And that alone is knowing, believing, trusting in God’s unique plan and mission for each of us, written before time and the universe began. He knows us, He values us, He loves us. Wow!

By: David Powell

David Powell — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:39:44 +0000

The preamble of the US Declaration of Independence says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The 18th century founders’ concept of “Happiness” was not pursuit of a feeling, but the pursuit of “a life well-lived.” I think this complements well the Christian’s life purpose of advancing His Kingdom.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:48:35 +0000

Thank you, Lois. This message is so timely in my own life as well as timeless!

By: David Hereford

David Hereford — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:09:40 +0000

Lois this is so true!! Father ask us to walk with, in , by Him and live in each moment in the reality of His presence. Father creates reality and we learn our whole lives learning what He is doing!
Thank you

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:35:05 +0000

Beauitiful Lois. It’s like you described the Jewish concept of Kiddush Hashem, the sanctification of His great, awesome, and Holy Name. Life lived for the sake of Heaven. Baruch Hashem!

By: Gemma Blech

Gemma Blech — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:01:42 +0000

In reply to orienthunt.

How sad. Knowing God, knowing Yeshua is HAVING A RELATIONSHIP today. If your ‘purpose in life’ is going down assorted RABBIT TRAILS – THE 2ND COMING; THE RAPTURE, and I am sure umpteen others you will end up pissed off. In any relationship if you are always expecting the Other to be Different or Do something, it is frustrating and is nothing to do with a relationship. “THIS is the day the LORD has made let us rejoice and be glad in HIM” [Psalm 118:24] Or “Now is the day of salvation… ” [2 Corinthians 6:2] Remenber Jesus Name, YESHUA means SALVATION…

By: Jevigan

Jevigan — Sun, 15 May 2016 22:00:00 +0000

Love this article!

This is in reply to Orienthunt. First off I’m sorry that you trying out Jesus didn’t work. I do think the problem starts right there with “Trying”. You don’t try Water out, you are made of it. With out it you die. You don’t just try out Gasoline in your car. Your car needs it to run. I’m a young dude who had no gas in the engine and never had a sip of water in my life. When I met Jesus I realized “Whoa this is a God who loves me like crazy and just put up these guidelines because he doesn’t want to see me hurt my self or hurt others.”

Wow, I tried everything under the sun..literally from every drug to every type of girl to performing in front of arenas full of people. All of it left me empty. Only he could take me higher than the drugs only he could make me smile in the dark.

He isn’t so concerned about us worrying about him coming back or becoming a preacher or a missionary. He wants us to be evangelizing ourselves all the time so we can become fountains and gardens to the world.

You said “I was in love with him at that moment. I waited for years and years then nothing happened. I feel betrayed and fooled, I should’ve done something beneficial for myself or others.”

What were you waiting for? You said you loved him. There should be enough Joy right there. Did you want money or some worldly happiness? He doesn’t care about that stuff. He just wants a relationship. And yes you should have been doing something beneficial for yourself and others. That’s his number one commandment. Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as you love yourself.

Sounds like you met a religious Jesus. I don’t think that was really him. I wouldn’t give up just yet. He loves you more than you can imagine and is right beside you waiting for you except his invite. I don’t know you but I got a lot of love you brother or sister. Tons of blessings on your journey. 🙂

By: orienthunt

orienthunt — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:40:18 +0000

This doesn’t work out for me. I’ve tried Jesus and my life became worse instead of finding a purpose of life. Furthermore, the purpose of my life turned to “waiting for his second coming”, release everything in life then become a preacher or missionary. I got so many things I want to do in my life and I don’t see them as bad things, yet I sense that Jesus disapproved them and want me to do something else which sounds ridiculous. I was in love with him at that moment. I waited for years and years then nothing happened. I feel betrayed and fooled, I should’ve done something beneficial for myself or others. The other thing that made me pissed off is, god ruined all of my efforts. Seems like he’s prohibiting me but then doesn’t do anything about the thing he want me to do. What a stupid god!

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 04:53:42 +0000

In reply to jason.

It is unfortunate that one has to force a smile.

General comment about the best definition of happiness I have yet heard. Happiness isn’t having what you want, it is wanting what you have.

Now a little testimony. Philippians has key words, “Joy” and “rejoice”. We are instructed to “Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say rejoice.” Phil. 4:4

My wife died after short illness when she was 27…of a brain infection. Her first seizure was on a Thursday. She died the next Tuesday. Our son was six months old. It was devastating. But even as the memorial service unfolded…while I was tremendously sad, my underlying emotion was joy. The key is the focus of a believers’ joy. To have a consistent joy level one has to focus on a being who is unchanging. Only Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. By focusing on Him, I was able to make it through those trying times. I found I could trust the Lord even with this horrendous tragedy. My son and I were blessed that my parents’ kindness to let us rent from them for a time.

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