Ugly People

"Never pick a fight with an ugly person. They've got nothing to lose."


We all feel like in our lives we have something to lose. Pride, money, respect, friends, cookies (ok, so that last one is just cuz i'm hungry and i just ate my last box of Dunkaroos). But in all reality, we've got nothing to lost. It is all meaningless. I watched a movie with Lindsey last night called About Schmidt. It stars Jack Nicholson, who is an amazing actor, who in the movie realizes after he retires, his wife dies, and his daughter gets married, that his life has had no purpose and it has no meaning. My pastor Mark preached about the same topic on Sunday. If you've ever read the book of Ecclesiastes, it pretty much has the same message: everything in this world is meaningless. Pleasures, wisdom, riches, the works- and this is coming from the author, Solomon, the richest, wisest man ever.

So if everything in his life was meaningless, ours is too, right? What have we got to lose? Which has lead me to a paradigm shift in my small, pathetic life. Solomon had nothing worth living for. But the difference between between him and me is Christ. So if everything apart from Christ is meaningless and not worth living for, than he is the only thing worth living for. Why do I spend day after day after day being totally consumed with my own desires and meaningless things? Everything I work for and occupy my time with, outside of God, is pointless. I'm seriously starting to question , then, what is my purpose?

What am I supposed to be doing?

Why did God give me the talents I have?

Why are all the dunkaroos gone?(sorry, still hungry.)


I could use some prayer. I think we all could. We have a lot of things in our lives that are not of God, that are of our own, or even worse, Satan's, plans and ideas. We are called to be totally consumed by God and his plan for us, his blessings for our lives. I've got a lot to think about, whether or not engineering is how I'm supposed to be spending my time, where God wants me to minister, and how can I better live a meaningful life.


So don't fight ugly people. They've got nothing to lose. Yet Christ loved the ugly people. The sick and disfigured. He gave them everything to live for. He's given me everything to live for.