I can certainly sympathize that to a non-believer like yourself, the prospect of spending one’s life telling others about God scarcely seems attractive. But that’s because you haven’t fallen in love with Him yet. A person who is in love wants to tell others about his beloved, to show photos of her or him to others, to think often about her or him. But someone who is not in love is apt to say, “Spend my life telling other people about her (him)? Are you kidding?”
In any case, you can breathe easy. For, contrary to what you’ve been told, the meaning of life is not telling other people about God. That’s a misimpression that probably arises from confusing one’s vocation with the meaning of one’s life. Some people, like myself, do feel called to tell other people about God as their vocation. But not every Christian is so called. Some may be called to be an artist or a scientist or a rice farmer. Certainly everyone should always be ready to share his faith when the opportunity presents itself, but that isn’t to say that that is one’s vocation in life.
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