Purpose
Posted by: Pastor Claude Thomas
We are racing forward in the new millennium with more technological advances than any time in our history. We have more to entertain us than any generation in history. We can experience more of the universe than any other generation.
But with all this at our fingertips, are we any more satisfied with who we are and why we exist? We can gather information about all kinds of things from all over the world. We can learn the weather and the world condition in a matter of minutes. All we have to do is get on the Internet. The answers are in cyberspace.
But what about a more fundamental question like, “Why am I here?” Where do we go to find the answer to that one?
An anthropologist at a major university said, “We’ve stripped away what our ancestors saw as essential—the importance of religion and family. People feel they want something they’ve lost, and they don’t remember what it is they’ve lost. But it has lost a gaping hole.” (Charles Nuckolls, anthropologist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia as quoted in Laurie’s Life Questions, p.59).
That gaping hole is the loss of “why we are here.” What is the answer? Why are we here?
The answer? We were created with a specific purpose—to know God. Paul was a man with a purpose in life. He said, “…one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward…” (Philippians 3:10). What was it that consumed Paul’s life? He said it like this, “that I may know Him…intimately and progressively all the days of my life.” (3:16).
Here is our purpose: to know God and enjoy Him forever through faith in His Son Jesus.