The Point of a Good Life

"No good deed goes unpunished," or so the saying goes. It is a sarcastic commentary on the frequency with which acts of kindness backfire on those who offer them. In other words, those who help others are often doomed to suffer as a result of their being helpful. And everyone likely has a story that validates the truth behind the cliché. It kind of makes you wonder, at the end of the day, what the point of it all really is, why anyone would ever bother to make an effort to do good at all. But what if there really is a point to doing good? What if the Bible presents a completely different perspective on the point of a good life?