The Purpose for Life… What is it?
What is your purpose for life?
Could you verbalize it if someone asked?
I don’t know what you have chosen as your purpose for living, but I do know what you were designed for… Relationships.
Connectedness.
Community.
We all want to connect.
We all desire community.
But how will we get this community that we crave?
We find little connections all the time – at the ballgame with fellow fans, at the office with our co-workers, with our neighbors at the barbeque. But isn’t there a deeper connection we can find?
I love how this is explained in “Creature of the Word” as the authors discuss the early church of Philippi:
So the little growing church in Philippi was now home to people like this: a Wealthy, upscale businesswoman… a slave girl with a deep, dark, wounded past… a tough-nosed jailer and his family…. What else did these people have in common but the gospel? They never would have gone to the same restaurants, hung out in the same parts of town, or listened to the same music. But because God had radically transformed them, they shared a common bond deeper than anything that divided them. They were together only because of the gospel.
Together only because of the gospel….
You see, you were created for an intimate relationship with God and others.
It is the only thing that’ll satisfy completely.
Leave one or the other out, and you’ll still be missing a part of the community that you need.
What we find out is that the gospel is the only thing that can truly put us together in real community. It is what we were designed for.