Purpose Driven Life
Purpose Driven Life
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him” (Psalms 24:1). The Lord is the creator of the earth and He looked over all that He created and saw that it was very good! (Gen 1:31). God created everything with a purpose. Everything that we see around has a purpose to fulfill. Yet out of all His creations, we humans have a greater purpose because we are the most valuable to Him. It is essential for every human to realise that we have a great purpose to live.
“For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him” (Col 1:16). The greatest purpose of our very existence is to live for Him, because everything is through Him. Living for Him is not just a necessity but there lies every source of us. We might think that living up for God involves a sacrificial living, but the truth is that He wants us to offer Him just as we are no matter what we are left with. It might be even very little, that He shall be glorified in that which is little. Because He is a God who makes the empty into plenty. Yes! He wills to make us abundantly overflow, as we realise the true purpose of our living. “Yes, God is more than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have more than enough of everything —every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do” (2 Cor 9:8 TPT).
When Elijah met the widow in Zarephath, she was in complete bankruptcy that she made up her mind to eat the least amount of flour she was left with. She had only a little for her and her son. But we read that when she gave that little flour to the prophet, the Lord made her abundant. “So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elijah” (I Kings 17:15-16).
Because everything is for and through Him, we need to align our lives to do anything but based on Him and for Him. “And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:17). For those who live such a living, everything turns out to be good according to Romans 8:28. Moreover to live for Him, we need Him. Because without Him, we can do nothing (John 15:5). Hence fruit bearing is impossible without Him.
Without Him, our state of existence is unclean and invalid. Realising this, the great prophet Isaiah confessed to the Lord when he was called to represent Him, that … I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips (Isaiah 6:5). Yet he received his eligibility when the tongs of fire touched his unclean lips. And then he carried the word from the Lord and served to be His mouth. It shows the picture of the Holy Spirit enabling his mouth to speak the word of God.
We need God for everything. Most assuredly to serve him. Because He is the provider and it is Him that we serve. We need the abundance of His marvellous grace to fruitfully carry out any good deed. He is ever ready to provide. Let us be keen to receive it and accomplish a purposeful livelihood.
