The purpose of life, as demonstrated by Christ's example, is to serve others and make the world a better place. We can never improve on what Christ did, but we can learn from His example and strive to emulate His selfless love and compassion.Now, when we look at this comparison between Jesus' life and our own, we can see that our ability to achieve what we want is nothing in comparison to His accomplishments. This is why He identified with us as a human being, because He knows how we mess things up.He understands how difficult it is for us to accomplish what we know we should be doing. Seeing that He was able to eliminate sickness from the world at that time, we can understand that He is not expecting us to be distraught about our accomplishments. At the same time, since He suffered as a human being, He was tired. He experienced physical, mental, and spiritual pain. Therefore, He knows what we are going through.Even though Jesus lived on this earth, He did not completely take care of all the world's problems. Instead, He left this earth after His resurrection and gave us His Spirit so that we might complete the work He started. So we are already caught up in this world, but we still haven't reached its full potential. This is a bit meta physical, I'm sorry, but if you think about time as the little hand moves around the clock and think about the past, present, and future as the little hand moves, then you are looking at the past and the future moving as the little hand moves.The question then becomes, how much do we really know about the present? One of the reasons the Bible speaks of the present as an age or period of time is because it is seen as a system. If we think of the element of experience, then the past overtakes the future. This is determined as a matter of being in time. We can think of this in increments of minutes, days, months, years, a lifetime, a generation, and the history of the world. When looked at from this perspective, there doesn't seem to be much to the present or future experience in this world.This is why God is beyond time, so when we experience being in a relationship with God, it is as if we are thinking His thoughts. Then the past becomes our experience. Here, I think, is a healthy view of forgetting about oneself in the transaction. But if we have our minds on earthly things, then we lose that real experience as the past moves into the future.