Truth about Purpose

Everything in Life has a Purpose:



Everything that was made is made with a specific purpose. There is a reason for every thing or person that exists.




Not every Purpose is known:



The ignorance of that purpose or meaning does not cancel the purpose for something or someone (And this creates a problem in life!)




Where Purpose is not known abuse is inevitable:

Ignorance of purpose creates abuse of the thing or person. If we don't know what a thing or person was made for we tend to abuse it (abuse = abnormal use!) That which was made for a good and perfect reason will be turned into something bad or harmful!




If you want to know the purpose of a thing never ask the thing!

If the purpose for a thing originated out of the mind of it's manufacturer then the product cannot tell us it's purpose (That's why computers come with an instruction manual produced by the company and it's programer!)We always have to get the purpose and instructions from the source, everything else is speculation!




Purpose has to be discovered in order to be effective:

Before a thing can be useful we need to get instructions from the manufacturer in order to handle it right and we need to know the source, so in case it breaks down we know where to bring it for repairs (Advice from the editor: "Don't bring your BMW to Toyota for repairs - you will end up in chaos! I had to find that out the hard way!!!!")




Purpose is the key to fulfillment in life:

The only thing that can bring satisfaction in life is the purpose we were born to fulfill in this life. Otherwise we are going to be depressed, empty, always searching for meaning and peace in the wrong places and never find it. An unfulfilled life is always missing the fulfillment of it's purpose!

What then is the purpose of life?

If our definitions are true then purpose has to be discovered because it is not automatically known (i.e. we have to learn what we can do, what we are talented and gifted to do). Also if we want to find out the specific purpose in our life then we have to go to our source.
The next question that arises is: What or who is our source?
If purpose (see definition) requires a reason for which something is made, we have to come to the conclusion that our source must be intelligent enough to be able to reason and think. That on the other hand cancels the idea that our origin derived from merely dust or a random selective process of reactions between molecule complexes, since neither one of them is capable of producing a reasonable, intelligable thought in itself, let alone purpose. So if we originated from "dust" only without any intelligence behind it, there would be no purpose or meaning of life at all, since there also would be no "Manufacturer". That means we must have been created - not only that, but
this Creator must be intelligent because we are (a product cannot be more intelligent than it's manufacturer! Even a computer can only do what it's progamer knows!).
He must be a designer with taste and a sense for beauty, because we have the the same ability.
He must have emotions and being able to love because we can.
Further He must have a sense for justice and truth, because we want to be dealt with truthfully and just by others!
All of those qualities and far more can be seen in the Creator and God descibed in the Bible. If we truthfully have a purpose then there must be a Creator and He in some way also has to provide instructions and a way for us to find that purpose, since it originated out of His mind. He indeed left His instructions for the purpose of His creation and we can read those in the Bible (God's Word). In the Bible God says that we are created in His image and He gave us a purpose (a general and specific one), visionand the potential to fulfill it in our life time.

Taking all of this in consideration, we come to a conclusion
that the purpose of life can only be found in God.
The Bible says (in Ecclesiastes 3:11) that God has put eternity in pepole's heart. It is like a shaped emptiness, if we may say so, that keeps us searching for that "is there anything more in life" to fill it! This can be observed everywhere around the world in every person, tribe and nation! That void is making us uncomfortable untill it is filled out. So many people try to fill it with many things in the search for relief in many wrong places. Any form of material things, drugs or intoxicating substances, relationships or self-fulfillment through our own abilities (The word itself is a hint that directs it to the "filling of one's emptiness"!) is unable to fill it, even if some of those things can bring temporary relief, the emptiness will appear even greater trying to do so (That's the main reason why many famous and wealthy people commit suicide, in spite of all the fame and material possessions!)

Only God alone is able to fill out that emptiness (after all He is the One Who created it in the first place!). He will not do this automatically though, but we have to ask Him. The emptiness exists due to a seperation from God that took place because of sin (disobedience and rebellion against God). Because God loves us and demonstrating His love He provided a way to reverse that seperation through His son JESUS CHRIST, who, dying on the cross, took our sin upon Himself and once and for all canceled it, taking away the very reason for the seperation. On top of that God raised Him from the dead and Jesus went back into heaven (without dying!)

So, what do we have to do with that?
Well, here is the part where we have to do a little step of action! In order to claim the benefits of being together with God again, to get rid of that emptiness permanently and even to be with God after we die,
we just need to accept what Jesus did there on the cross for us and acknowledge that we have sin in our lives that seperated us and ask him to fill that emptiness (He will do this by His Spirit) and let Jesus become our Savior (from that sin that brings seperation and death) and our Guide through life (so that the purpose that He created us for will be accomplished!).
And since He is alive and can hear us we can ask Him by merely talking to Him and He is the One that can reveal that specific purpose to us. Yes, we even can have a living relationship with JESUS through the Spirit of God. Out of that relationship, which is God's desire, we will come to recognize our purpose and obtain the fulfillment and peace of mind we are longing for in our lives.

The very fact that you where born and are alive today is the evidence that God has a specific purpose in mind when He created you in your mother's womb. So your birthday is not an accident, but was planned by God, because He put something in you that this world needs today - that means there is something in this world that still needs to be done that required YOU(!) to fulfill it!
But only God can make this known to you!

Concluded we can say:


Life without God in it will be meaningless, without purpose, void and empty and with death will end in an eternal seperation from God.

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