WHAT’S it all about? Is this all there is?

When earthly pleasures grow dim or disappear – be it sport, relationships, hobbies or whatever – the big questions of life loom out of the ensuing blues.

Disappointed ultra football fans, for example, have questions of emptiness after club games end, and tonight’s international against Switzerland won’t help much.

However, out of this Monday-morning flatness can tower hope.

Millions have found God simply when the boredom of reality drives them to find and get answers to these big questions.

Two major reactions follow questions like… ‘Why am I here? Where do I come from? Do I have any real objective value? Do I serve a purpose?’

First, there’s the no-God-ers.

Their answers could be summarised: ‘There’s no reason for existing – we’re accidents.

'We come from nowhere in particular, and though we might have temporary value to somebody or some group, apart from this we have no intrinsic worth.

'Nor do we have a purpose other than to "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die" (Luke 12:19)'.

Second, God-believers answer.

‘We’re created beings, invented by an incredible, loving God in his image.

'We have value because we’re fashioned by this No.1 Person of the Universe, and, if we’ve accepted God as Father, he accepts us his children to reign with him in eternity.’ And what’s my line; my purpose?

‘I’m here to enjoy God and life to the full (Jesus’s promise in John 10:10), and this joy over-rides any momentary downturns of life.

'This joy is what we were designed for.'