Is the meaning of Life merely to glory in form and function? We understand that form (style) follows function. Form and function is much what characterises this temporal life on earth today. Man obsesses with form and function. Though seeming substantive in themselves (beauty and efficiency) they are but surface reflections. Not to be confused with true (lasting) substance. It is the substance that gives rise to form and function. In their work on behalf of the Great Multitude, the 144,000 come through the “time of trouble” and are fashioned therewith. [Rev. 7:13-14; Dan. 12:1ff] Though they make it to the Kingdom they are still to learn the new song – the song of Moses and the Lamb. [Rev. 14:1-3ff; 15:1-4ff] This helps guard against the premature self-glory and pride (born not of true substance but of form and function) so common today among believers and unbelievers alike. Whether secular or religious we are made to see the emptiness of it all. In the Song of Solomon we read, “Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if [a] man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.” [Sol. 8: 7; compare Matt. 22:37-40] In the absence of Divine Love, man in the barrenness of his soul obsesses with form and function as though this is the meaning of life. Made captivate thereby, he is left without what to free himself.