What is the Purpose for Life?

                  

                   Purpose for Life

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..Life is hard. But it’s even harder without Jesus.

You have been created for life with God. He wants to be your Companion on life’s pathway, your Comforter during adversity, and your Guide when you are perplexed. God wants to rejoice in your successes and help you through your failures.

Where are you in your life’s Journey? We are all going somewhere. No one is really standing still. Every day moves us further along the path of life. Since God is the originator of life, and we are his creation, it only makes sense that your life’s journey can be explained by where it is taking you in relation to Him.
Unfortunately most roads put distance between God and us. Some roads bring us closer to Him. But the best road is the one that begins with our spiritual birth and ultimately leads to our eternal home in heaven. On this road we do not travel alone, because He travels with us.
God has mapped out the route for each one of His children. It is a journey that is filled with adventure and opportunities. But it is also a journey during which we will encounter distractions, temptations, and obstacles.
Where are you in your Journey with God? Are you on a road where you will eventually have an encounter with Him? Or have you already started your personal journey with God through spiritual birth?

It’s Your Journey!

Would you like to know God personally? If you haven’t already done so, begin a personal relationship with God today. Begin traveling on the road for which God created you.

• What is the Purpose for Life?

  
  
  Why do you exist? This is one of the most foundational questions of life. What a person believes about the reason for life has a profound impact on every other decision they make.
  And yet, many people haven’t a clue how to answer this question. They live without any overarching purpose. For them life is merely there to be used up. So they blindly keep walking on the road of life until it is over.
  As tragic and foolish as this may seem, the end result is not any better for those who have given themselves wholeheartedly to any one of the numerous wrong purposes for life. Although they run through life with a great sense of direction, in the end they will have arrived at the same wrong destination.
  Why do you exist? Ultimately, because God created you to honor and glorify Him! Read on to gain an understanding of God’s purpose and plan for your life!
   

     What is the Purpose for Life?

                      Five Facts of Life

   

  1. Life is a precious gift from God.

  For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb … All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.
  (Psalm 139:13, 16)
  

  2. Life is valuable.

  When I consider your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place, what is man that You are mindful of him, the son of man that You care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. (Psalm 8:3-5)
  

  3. Life is hard, but worth it.

  We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
  (The apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 4:8-9)
  Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
  (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)
  

  4. Life is short.

  Lord, help me to realize how brief my time on earth will be. Help me to know that I am here for but a moment more. (Psalm 39:4)
  

  5. Life is to be lived wisely.

  Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should. (Psalm 90:12)
  Some people are just living to make a living. For them, financial survival has become all consuming. They work hard so they can get out of debt, pay for education, improve their standard of living, and save for their retirement. Year after year after year, the financial treadmill keeps them running. It seems like there just isn’t time for anything else. Making a living has become that total focus for their life.
  

  Eight Principles for Purpose

  1. God wants us to work and not to be idle or lazy.

  Some people consider work to be a necessary evil. But even within the utopia of the Garden of Eden, God assigned work to Adam. “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it” (Genesis 2:15). Work has always been part of God’s plan for mankind.
  Although work is difficult, idleness and laziness are destructive. God wants us to work and He wants us to work wholeheartedly. In Hebrews 6:12 we read, “We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.”
  Ephesians 6:7-8 teaches, “Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does whether he is slave or free.”
  

  2. God wants us to trust Him for the necessities of life.

  Worrying about the necessities of life can become a major driving force for us. Soon we become so preoccupied with our needs that we don’t have time for God or anything else. Knowledge about God is an antidote to worry. As we get to know our sovereign heavenly Father better, we come to understand how much He loves us, how important we are to Him and how committed He is to take care of us. Jesus taught us how to live dependent on God in the Sermon on the Mount:
  Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
  And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? (Matthew 6:25-30).
  

  3. God wants us to be devoted to Him and not be obsessed with accumulating money and possessions.

  Again, in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus instructed on our attitude about our material possessions:
  Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also (Matthew 6:19-24).
  Paul teaches in Philippians 4:11-12:
  

  I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

  God wants us to cultivate an attitude of contentment by being thankful for what we have, instead of focusing on what we don’t have.