NOTES for Rom 14:7-8
How does human existence differ from the being of any other created creature? First of all, by the question of meaning: why, for what do I live? A meaningless existence is empty and unworthy of a human being, and the same is true of life for oneself alone: it is the life of a plant or an animal, but not of a human being. A person cannot always say that he has already found and defined this meaning for himself, but the very search for this meaning already fills his life with content.
And today we read what the apostle Paul writes about his life, whose meaning he found on the road to Damascus (Acts 9). For him, the main thing is his relationship with God, his belonging to Him. It is God, who created the world according to His design, who gives meaning to every creature, and our being is meaningful when it corresponds to this divine meaning. Then it turns out that we live not for ourselves, but for the Lord. Every moment of our existence belongs to Him, including death. And this means that death is not a very important event in our life, because it changes nothing in the most important thing: our belonging to God.