What is Your Purpose?

     What is your purpose?  This question pulsates in our being since we were old enough to comprehend life itself.  I remember being four years old and telling my mom "I want to change the world!"  My brother passed away when I was young so the possibility of death was extremely real to me and I truly believed that majority of the world was going to hell.  Why?  I had no idea.  I just knew that there must be more; there has got to be a purpose!
     It was only this last year that the Lord began to bring people in my life who brought scripture to my attention that not only answered but gave me vision to my pulsating heart.  1 Corinthians 10:23-33 speaks of the glory of God.  This passage tells us that if "you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."  It is very clear that the reason for our existence is the glory of God.  We live for no other reason except to bring pleasure  to the one who created us.  The more we delight in Him the more we glorify Him.
     Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."  We are in trouble!  The meaning of our existence is to glorify Him yet we have sinned.  We fall short of what the Lord desires for His creation.  Thankfully we serve a creator who is merciful and full of grace.  He sent His own Son that we might once again live to glorify Him.  He desires for us to live a life of delighting in Him so much that He slain His own Son that we might be reconciled.  That we might once again sign up for a life of glorifying Him.  How beautiful!
     How can we say that we don't know how to delight in Him or we get bored with praising His name.  This is the least boring story I have ever studied.  We are a bride making ourselves ready for our bridegroom, a friend whose closest friend is the Creator of all things, we are a son whose Father is sovereign over everything we experience and a judge who promises to be our mediator at the end of the age.  A fairytale of all fairytales!  Yet the best news of all; it's not a fairytale.  It is reality and a truth that we can be abiding in and living out everyday.
    Seeing as we were created to glorify God and to delight in Him with all that are, it is in this reality that we receive abundant life.  There are many idols, deceptions and distractions that get in the way of this.  However we must continually cast off these things, die to our flesh and pursue a lifestyle of delighting in our creator.  It is here when we have chosen to die to ourselves that we begin to experience the abundant life that we were made for.
     Many begin to follow what our society advertises as being "abundant life."  These days often we hear the terms "finding yourself" or "learning who you are."  These are great dissections and distractions in our lives.  For we were not created to gaze upon one who is created "in the image of God" but rather to explore the God head Himself.  We must fight the distraction of becoming fully self centred and choose to set our gaze on the Creator of all creation.  God the Father.