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Everyone, at one point or another, will ask themselves, “What am I doing here?”But even if they don’t ask themselves this question, actions will speak louder than words.

Look on any college campus and you’ll see people looking for meaning and being a part of something bigger.  For example, on Wednesday, I went to the Nationals game here in DC.  There were two college students gathering signatures to get ExxonMobile advertisement out of the stadium.  Not older adults and not politicians but college students.

Why is this?  I think it’s because this is the time that we begin to wonder what our life is going to be about.  But I don’t think it’s by accident.  I think it’s by design.

What I’ve found in Christ is the sense of meaning.  If environmental, political, and socioeconomic problems were solved tomorrow, there would be nothing to protest.  These topics give people the illusion that they are a part of something bigger.  But they don’t realize that they can and will disappear.

So what is so different about Christianity?  Eternity.

There is never a shortage of what can be learned and experienced in the life of Christ.  I constantly find myself questioning my faith and trying to get a better understanding about the life that God has promised.  Living a faith-filled, fear-free life is so elusive that we must constantly search for it.  The difficulty is that situations always change but God remains constant.

The challenging obstacle of the faith journey is ourselves.  We’re prone to wonder, walking aimlessly to things that will fade away.  Even though we know this, we still do it.  And the older we get, the harder this seems to be.

I used to ask myself how I will make my mark on this world.  I now ask myself “What will I do today that will change the world?”  Like all of the causes I listed before, I’ll fade away too.  But hopefully my actions and my faith will have inspired others to do the same.  Ultimately, it’s not about me.  It’s about the person next to me.  If I keep that in mind, I won’t have to worry about leaving my mark on the world.