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Here's Chip Ingram with How to Overcome Feelings of Futility.

What we're going to talk about today is the difference between success and significance.

To use an old cliche, there's a very subtle thing that can happen in every life, and here it is.

You can climb a ladder and work and be very, very, very productive,

only to find out that the ladder that you've climbed is what?

Leaning against the wrong wall.

Turn with me, if you will. I put some study notes together.

And I think I'd like to begin by asking and answering the question, what's the difference between a life of futility and a life of fruitfulness?

And then I want together with you to think through out loud,

what kind of life are you going to have?

What kind of life am I going to have?

Is it going to be one of futility?

Are we going to look back in the rear view mirror of our lives and say,

I worked, I prayed even.

I thought that once I arrived here, it would be full, but instead it's empty.

Webster defines futility as that which easily pours out, hence untrustworthy.

It's interesting thought, isn't it?

That which fails completely of desired end or incapable of producing any result as something trifling or

unimportant. Futility simply means that you give yourself to it, but then it comes up empty.

Never forget the illustration a guy shared with me. I was a young Christian, just a couple

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