How would you answer the question, "What is the meaning of life?" Jonathan Gabay of England has published a book containing the answers of well-known individuals to that query. One of them, a church leader, gave an arresting testimony. As a child, he says, he watched his family's black and white TV, wishing that he could get a clearer picture. But he was glad they had even that unsatisfactory set.

Then his family learned that an outside antenna was needed. "Suddenly," he said, "we found that we could get clear and distinct pictures. Our enjoyment was transformed." Then he draws this comparison: "Life without a relationship with God through Jesus Christ is like the television without the antenna."

Without a knowledge of God and His purposes revealed in Scripture and in Jesus Christ, we finite humans with our sin-darkened minds have at best a blurred picture of the invisible, holy Creator. But when we pick up the Bible and encounter Jesus, the Man who was God-in-the-flesh, the fuzziness vanishes. As the Savior Himself declared, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (Jn. 14:9).

Have you seen Jesus clearly in God's Word? Are you helping others to see Him too? (1 Jn. 1:1-3; Acts 1:8).  — Vernon C. Grounds