What is our purpose??
This is a great question. It has seemed
to be coming up here in our work in Guatemala. Whenever we visit a
home and begin to witness. The question is “What is your purpose
here on earth?” Are we living just to make more and more money? Is
our purpose to find true love? Is our purpose just to raise our
children? What is our purpose??
This life is so short. We desire to
make the most of our years here. If you do not know Christ and are
not born again, It is of most importance that you understand that
your purpose here is not for your own pleasure. Most of you will
answer our purpose is to bring glory to God. While many of these
answers are good, and partly correct. As believers, our greatest
purpose here is to allow the son of God to be revealed in us
(Galatians 1:16). That Christ may be seen through us and that souls
may be won for His kingdom.
Another point I would love to bring up,
Is that God had everything prior to us being created. He did not need
us. He had angels that constantly worship Him and cry Holy, Holy,
Holy. The whole earth pleased Him. Everything obeyed Him and did
according to His perfect will. Then He created man. One who would sin
against Him and would blaspheme his name. So why then did He create
us? He had everything, except a relationship. This is what he desires
for us. One that would talk to Him, and He could talk back to.
God found this in Adam. The bible says
that He would come in the cool of the day and commune with him. And
then there was sin, that separated them. Now we know that
relationship was broken. But Thank God through Jesus Christ that
relationship can be restored and made new. Now the Bible states that
if we walk in the light then we have fellowship with Him. That is the
relationship that He desires with us. Walking with us.
So while we have many responsibilities
here on earth and in our everyday lives. Remember we were not created
to live in a way to only please ourselves and live out our desires.
But our greatest purpose is that the one who died for us may live and
breath and have our being.
This may look many different ways. It
could be a pastoring position, or preaching to great multitudes. It
could be finding a secret place that no one knows about and crying
out for the lost to be saved. It could be traveling the world and
sharing the gospel. It could be as simple as telling the cashier that
she doesn't have to live like she is, but that Christ died for her
sins.
Let us go forth and live in this
purpose that God has for our lives.
John Leonard Dober and David
Nitschman are unsung heroes.These men were not going on a nice short
term mission to the Caribbean, or even Africa or China but they sold
themselves into slavery to answer the call ‘come and minister the
gospel to us’. It gives new meaning to the phrase “sold out for
Christ”. They became slaves in order to have the opportunity to
reach the slaves of the West Indies for their Lord. Their life’s
purpose was to follow the Lamb who had given His life for them and
for all the souls of the world. Their mission statement was “Our
Lamb has conquered, let us follow Him.”
One of the men left his wife and
children begging on the wharf for him to reconsider and stay. But the
call and heart of God for these slaves in the West Indies was even
greater than the pull of home. As the ship pulled away from the docks
the men lifted a cry,
“May the Lamb that was slain
receive the reward of His suffering”
(Story
taken from For all Nations)
