Purpose for Living
Chapter 1 - Purpose for living
Have you ever paused to ask yourself these: What am I doing in this world? Why am I still alive? What is the purpose of my existence? If you feel that much of your life is purposeless, let me assure you right away that God does have a purpose for your life – a high and noble purpose! There are two major purposes for living – to know God wholeheartedly and to be aware of others. I assume you are already aware of God, so are you aware of others? Do you care for those who are faced with everyday problems of life? How many people will praise God through you? How much do you care for the less privileged and those in troubles, how do you feel and react whenever someone else is in pain? Please answer these questions before you continue. Let us start this way. We are not in this world to live for ourselves, we are not in existence so as to please ourselves but we are living for God. This must sink into us, God made us for Himself and Himself alone and we are to live for Him. If you are trying to find your purpose outside God, you will fail, He is the only one who has the master plan of our life, he knows the in and out, He formed you and I for a reason and to discover this reason we must start from Him. My point here is that we must live for God and how do we live for Him? By fulfilling our purpose of existence. To fulfill this, we must start with Him. On the other hand It is a pity that so many people claim to love God and they don’t obey Him, they don’t do His will. Oh! You don’t know that God’s highest priority is in people. Selwyn Hughes says “God’s highest priority in this universe has to do with people”. He is interested in things of course – He created all things – but His primary concern is you and me. God does not make your services His priority. Allow me to say that God is not interested in the services you want to render nor your good deeds as long as you are not in a right
Have you ever paused to ask yourself these: What am I doing in this world? Why am I still alive? What is the purpose of my existence? If you feel that much of your life is purposeless, let me assure you right away that God does have a purpose for your life – a high and noble purpose! There are two major purposes for living – to know God wholeheartedly and to be aware of others. I assume you are already aware of God, so are you aware of others? Do you care for those who are faced with everyday problems of life? How many people will praise God through you? How much do you care for the less privileged and those in troubles, how do you feel and react whenever someone else is in pain? Please answer these questions before you continue. Let us start this way. We are not in this world to live for ourselves, we are not in existence so as to please ourselves but we are living for God. This must sink into us, God made us for Himself and Himself alone and we are to live for Him. If you are trying to find your purpose outside God, you will fail, He is the only one who has the master plan of our life, he knows the in and out, He formed you and I for a reason and to discover this reason we must start from Him. My point here is that we must live for God and how do we live for Him? By fulfilling our purpose of existence. To fulfill this, we must start with Him. On the other hand It is a pity that so many people claim to love God and they don’t obey Him, they don’t do His will. Oh! You don’t know that God’s highest priority is in people. Selwyn Hughes says “God’s highest priority in this universe has to do with people”. He is interested in things of course – He created all things – but His primary concern is you and me. God does not make your services His priority. Allow me to say that God is not interested in the services you want to render nor your good deeds as long as you are not in a right