The point of life is Life learning itself. Life is a great force which moves in us and through us and guides and follows both. It lifts us, wraps us, is us. It is God, it is your chair, it is you. It is in it's most concrete essence the energy which composes atoms. In it's most gestalt, it is God. At the heart, it is us. We are Life, but we are not exclusive of it, everything, every bit of matter or energy is part of it.
It cannot know itself completely except to be itself completely. Life must be lived in every possible way. From the humblest existance to the grandest, from the gentlest to the meanest. All of it is relevant, is another aspect of Life and it can only know itself through this process.
God exists to be in existence. To know itself. As we are part of this, we are here for that very same purpose. To know ourselves. Unlike God, we know only our own corner of experience, we are responsible only to live our own life with all the attention we can muster. Our experience then is added to the common pool of understanding and the whole of existence acquires that much more learning.
Some of us hear God, some of us don't. Not every aspect of experience includes hearing a God, some require you to live in a Godless world. After all, living in such a world is a valid part of the experience of God/Life and it can only be accomplished by one who does that. Not just one either, for in that category there are millions of possibilities. Every time you examine a state of being in a general term you will find that there are numerous possibilities; change but one factor and you have a new experience and it must be lived.
So we see people living thus, over and over yet each experience subtly different. What we are required to do is to live it with all our heart.
Meantime, threads of teaching run through the community. When they come to us, they are gifts to enhance our experience for that too is part of our unique contribution to Life. If you see a man lifted up from sorrow into joy by a teaching, then that does not mean his experience of sorrow was not valid, but that the lifting out of it was also part of his required experience!
So it is also for those who fall from grace or joy. That too is a necessary part. It is also necessary to have compassion for them, and so you might play a part in their experience as they play one in yours. We interact that way, crafting each other's worlds to suit our needs, even without clearly understanding the plan.
If we strive to find the best in ourselves then we increase Life's understanding of the best in life. If we cater to our baser whims then we teach life what it is to be base. Whatever we do, it spreads to the collected whole.
God is someone. God is something. God is everyone. God is everything. God is nothing because if a name can be put to it, then it is God, which makes God only itself.
To be everything, equally, without predjudice, is to stand out in no way at all and to appear to be nothing. This is the paradox that is Life.