Most people all over the world battle with this question, what is life all about? If you are looking for the answer in anything but the Bible, you are going to be disappointed. Life has no meaning if Christ isn’t in it. You can spend all your life searching for something significant or meaningful but will never find it. The only thing significant or worth living for is Christ. The apostle Paul put it best when in Philippians 1:21, he said “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain”. The apostle Paul hit the nail on the head; life is significant as long as you are living it for Christ.

Why are the rates of suicides, self injurers, addicts etc going up? The reason is simple; these people find no sense in living, if everything is going to come to an end someday, why not end it today? Or still others are living for friends, loved ones, money, happiness etc and when all of this ends, they see no hope or value to life and decide to call it quits. If you are living for reasons that depend on earthly things, life is never worth it!

So why live for Christ? What significance does He give to life? In the Bible, there are a dozen reasons why living for Christ is worth it but the one I think most dear is the fact that this Perfect, Holy, Righteous Lamb died for your sins and my sins and paid our ransom in order that you and I might have everlasting life and this He has given freely! And I can’t think of a more fitting response than Isaac Watts’s in his hymn where he says, But drops of grief can ne’er repay The debt of love I owe, Here, Lord, I give myself away – “Tis all that I can do.

Another amazing reason to live for Christ is that He gives hope not only for this life but the next! So while living with Him in this life allows us to conquer sin and be content in any situation, we even have hope for a sinless life. For when we die in this world because of His death and resurrection, we too will rise to a new home, heaven in which there will be no sin, for we shall be like Him. We will have conquered both death and sin! How Blessed is that?!

Hence, every Christian who is living his or her life for Christ, is living a significant life, one that’s worth it and can voice the words of Apostle Paul, For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.