Searching for the meaning of life. In what, why do I see the meaning of life and what I do?

It is said that someone who trains can, for example, swim for dozens of kilometers without resting, lift twice as much as he weighs… In the (Guinness) book of records, we read that a person can kill an ox with a blow of his hand, pull an airplane or a train set several meters with a rope in his teeth. And yet this miracle, the human body, is composed of elements that together cost about twenty crowns.

When the multi-millionaire industrialist Filberto Guala sold and gave away his property and joined the strictest order of the Trappists, it caused various reactions in Italy. Similarly, when Georg Mayr Melnhof, the son of a well-known noble family, a trained economist, coming from a billionaire family, where he was supposed to be the administrator of the largest Austrian forestry, entered the seminary in 1995.

Behind that and other values, names, decisions, and attitudes, we talk about the meaning of life. Acting and behaving in such a positive and negative way raises various questions, surprises, and disappointments, but also hope, joy, peace of mind, and the certainty of a new life. The meaning of life affects us too. Parables; about the treasure hidden in the field, about the buyer who is looking for precious pearls, and about the net that catches all the other fish, want to indicate what Jesus wants to remind us about the kingdom of God. The parable of the treasure hidden in the field and the buyer looking for precious pearls in connection with the kingdom of heaven speaks of the high price of heavenly values.

Each person walks his path in life, and yet all paths are the same, they have one mission, one goal. God enters the path of each person appropriately. God enters a person’s life on a certain day, during a certain event. What was is not decisive. It doesn’t matter if a person was looking for God or drowning in sin. The treasure in the field was discovered by accident. No one was looking for him. The buyer, on the other hand, was looking for a rare pearl. Both cases say that the finders came to the treasure only by God’s grace. A person discovers God even when he was not looking for God, when he was not looking for him, and even when he was looking, he finally found him. God first gives himself and reveals himself, and then faith grows out of it, under the free choice of man. Always and in all cases, heavenly values ​​have such a price that everything else can be given for them.

How many people walked across the field where the treasure was hidden? Jesus walks among us, and how many people do not notice him? The buyer searches again and gets the desired pearl. The search was not in vain. He was looking for the centurion Cornelius (Acts 10:1-43) and Lydia (Acts 16:14). To follow them means: to seek God with all seriousness and to hold fast to God, with all faithfulness. For whom the cause of God is not worthy of every sacrifice, he will never understand the preciousness of the pearl. The precious pearl is indestructible, it cannot be lost, and we will get it here on earth to pull our heart to heaven. The evangelist Matthew left everything himself when he recognized Jesus’ riches. The treasure hidden in the field and the pearl are none other than Jesus himself