......let's get straight to it!...
Why are we here? What were we created for? What is the point of our existence? What really matters in life? What is the point of out life? When we come to the end of our life and we cannot take anything or anyone with us, what really matters? I know what many say but how much do they really know? They have been living life just a long as i have, some just even existing. Some say we create our own purpose...how can a finite being that is like a drop of water compared to the ocean, a grain of sand compared to the desert, and a star in the sky compared to the galaxies create its own purpose? Does a fish wake up one morning & say i want to be a bird, or a bird say "o i want to learn how to swim"? NO! lol. Or take teenager who feels the purpose of life is to get to the next level of Call of Duty on their video game system..We know its no meaning to that but try convincing him! Everything and everyone obviously has a predetermined destiny, an ordained fate, and a planned out purpose or meaning for their lives! So what does ours consist of?..1st i will tell you what our society generally believes what The Purpose of Life is.
To Be Happy!
Now many, practically everyone agrees that our ultimate purpose is to live a life in the pursuit of happiness. To do what satisfies or is best for me. To acquire all that i can in the shortest amount of time i can & my life will be complete. If i can obtain a good car, job, wife, family, and friends then i've made it in this world. If i can live the American Dream i have fulfilled my purpose, I have lived a good life!
How wrong this is! Does anyone every reach this state of euphoria? We pursue happiness, but is it not constantly fleeting? Isn't happiness an emotion that is solely based on circumstances, situations, people, and things? How can i be happy if the security of everything i obtain is so frail, uncertain, unsure. Its here today and gone the next. Even, if and when i obtain this things am i ever really satisfied? Do i not want more, better, and is not the best consistently changing & developing? (I mean every year they come out with a new iphone, you'll run out of breathe trying to keep up) Is not this pursuit NEVER-ENDING? & what's worse is that, none of these things or people can i take with me once i die..none of them.
Imagine me face to face to my creator, saying to him.."well i know you wanted me to be happy so i spent all my time chasing your gifted" & He says "But not me", I respond "Well i did good i got a nice car, a beautiful wife, i took care of my kids...thats what you wanted right?, He responded "So where is that stuff now?"
Leaving a Legacy!
Well, humanity so badly want to leave our mark on the earth! We want to do something no ones ever done, go where no ones ever gone, and be something no one has ever seen. We want to be remember for all generations and ages to come. We want to be revolutionaries, by breaking records, setting trophies, and leaving a legacy. We want to set a bar that will be unreachable by anyone who tries to obtain it, doing something new and ground breaking!
How wrong this is! Every record is broken, every trophy is replace, and every legacy is forgotten. People spend their entire lives training preparing for one moment in time, to be succeeded by a younger version of themselves to break their record..the cycle goes on. 150 years from now what will really matter? Who will kobe bryant be to you once you are 80-90 years old but a memory of what he use to could do, & even then people will be comparing him to whoever the next greatest player is then. He will be eventually forgotten.
Once i have attained this mark in history, what's next? Do i stop right there and just die? What becomes my purpose once i have achieved my so called purpose? Is my purpose not meant for a lifetime or is it an event or an era/age? Does my purpose on last for this life or does it exceed into the next one? What will it matter to my creator that i broke the world's hot dog eating contest, or that i was the first one to do nothing at all..
Be a Good Person/ Help the World!
Everyone wants to save the world, solve global warming, cure cancer, HIV, and solve world hunger. Everyone has a passion to be remembered as a good person who cares about other people, who helped the homeless, who had a pocket full of good deed ready to pass them out for free. Everyone wants to be remembered for benefiting society, being someone's hero, saving a life, and making a difference!
How wrong this is! loll (i know someone is like huh?!) Yes! Everyone wants to save the world but the world cannot be saved..it can only be preserved! Think about it: i can solve global warming, cure AIDS, feed the homeless every where, and build a school in every country, but everyone who i save, cure, & help will still DIE! I only help them temporarily. In 200 years every one who i have helped will be in a grave, the people they help will be in a grave, and so-on. Maybe someone needs to come up will a cure for death!..but then you create another problem: Over Population! So what does it really matter if i help someone who eventually will die. Even then, i can't help no body until i help myself, and that alone takes a lifetime!
Imagine i save a village in some rural part of the world, planted a school, and just changed their lives tremendously. The same kid who i saved, grows up in the same school i built, learns about the same education i have, decides He wants to be a martyr for his country. Later saves up a his dollars that i gave him & fly to america and blows up a building that I'm in! smh (a lil extreme but feel me) How do i know who to help, how to help, and where to help. Morality doesn't change the world. Culture morality is exactly what it says..based on the culture, what may be right to him might not be right to them. To his culture his death is honored and his life has had a meaningful purpose! Even the fact of being remembered as a good person is wrong because no matter how hard i try i can't please everybody. Somebody will be mad for me, even for trying to help someone else. "The friend of my enemy is my enemy, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend" So who should we look to and please?
The Purpose of Life!
So where does that leave me? It seems as if no answers have been given. What is the purpose of life? The thing about it is, it that we have a creator who created us, in whom we have to answer to & give an account for everything we have done. When i get there none of these reasons will suffice. Im gone end up just looking stupid! So when i come to the end of my life and look back on my life how do i know that i did what i was created/supposed/purposed to do?
The truth is God wants all these things for your life! He wants you to be happy, leave a legacy and help people/save the world:
Happiness: God wants you to be in happy.. in him, not his gifts. He wants you to seek his face, not his hand, and to love the creator not the creation. He gives us things to delight in him. The source of my joy is not in the gift but the person who gives it. The moment i cherish the blessing more than the blessing..my life is wasted. The pursuit of happiness is NEVER ENDING because God is NEVER ENDING. He is the only one who can fill that void you search for.
Legacy: God wants you to leave a legacy..His, not yours. The fact of the matter is, we are finite, meaning not eternal, but God is everlasting. Anything we try to leave will eventually fade, but Gods legacy will endure through all eternity. His legacy has no beginning or end, His legacy is one that no one will ever be able to supersede..who else is good as God? His legacy is one that can't be replaced or forgotten, its written in the heaven: the story of his Son Jesus Christ and the redemption of the world!
The World: God wants you to help the world..through Him. Like i said everyone will die, but God has given a cure for death. Everyone wants to be moral but Christ is morality, not a cultural one that is objective, but a heavenly one which is the standard. The gospel saves, and changes lives. It is what will change the heart, and the circumstance and situation of a nation!
The Purpose of life is to Glorify God in everything you do which will involve your happiness and complete joy because it was what you were created to do. You were also created with a specific purpose but the thing about that is you can only find it in God. Check it: If an inventor invents an invention, who can be able to understand what it was invented to do except the inventor? You might be able to use it on other things but it will get worn out, tore up..& depressed because its not doing what it was meant to do. Its two ways you can find out what the invention was meant to do! 1) Read the instruction manual 2) Call the inventor! You have to learn to live life, you don't have to do nothing to exist, well yes you do, just do nothing. Some people have the wrong text book and being taught by the wrong teacher. Search for truth people, study to show yourself approved, because when the test comes & you don't have the right answers that F is going to cost you!
