As a young boy in secondary/high
school, I looked at life, people and basically my family. People(adults) wake
up in the morning and go out to their work places, they come home at evening
and rest preparing for the next day. They go out in the morning and come home
in the evening everyday just to put food on the table, live in a good
environment and be clothed. Students also wake up in the morning, run to
school, come back home at dusk hoping that after schooling, they will have a
decent job/endeavour and comfortably provide for their families. So, I wondered
why life is existing since we all labour to eat and live. We live to keep
working. Here's the funny part - we know everything is vanity. We all know we
will die someday and all our endeavours will JUST PERISH.
So I wondered: why on earth did God
create man? To come and try to survive? That wouldn’t be fair. But, I thought
to myself, He is always seated in heaven looking down to the earth, watching us
struggle and even expects us to keep all His commandments while struggling so
we don’t go to hell. I thought these things in my heart for months and months.
But studying God's word and listening
to teachers of the Word of God has helped me understand a lot. Many
people say: "God has a purpose for giving you life. He wants you to do
something for Him while you are on earth. He wants you to achieve the goal He
has set for you and impact peoples' lives positively". And they are very
correct. Many people come to God to get their needs met. And God wants to meet
your needs. As a matter of fact He "…hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness…"
(II Pet. 1: 3).
But brethren, God has not created you
to get your needs met. There is no point in creating a problem only so you can
solve it. He sure wants to meet your needs but that's not why He gave you life.
He wants you to impact the world, achieve His set goal and work in accordance
with His word, but that's not His primary reason for creating you. You could
not have had any world to impact if He had not made one. Take a look at Adam
and Eve. Why did God create them? I believe God did not create Adam and Eve to
meet their needs, yes, He wanted them to do things for Him - He wanted them to
dress and keep the garden, to bring order and control to His creation in
entirety. But that is not His primary purpose for creating them. If they were
created just to work in the garden, God would not have had to visit them at the
cool of the day.
I bet you are already asking,
"Why then did God Create Man?" That's the purpose of this write-up -
to answer that question.
"The four and twenty elders fall down
before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and
ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou
art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: FOR THOU HAST
CREATED ALL THINGS, AND FOR THY PLEASURE THEY ARE AND WERE CREATED." (Rev. 4: 10 - 11)
Stop! Read that verse again, consider
the words in capital letters, think deeply(meditate) on that.
Can you believe this? GOD MADE YOU
JUST FOR HIS PLEASURE? Yeah! He did. I really wish this is sinking into your
spirit.
No wonder David exclaimed:
"I
will praise thee; for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made…" (Ps. 139: 14)
Look! You are not a junk! You aren’t useless!
God loves you and just wants to take pleasure in you not because you are
lovely; but that is the reason he made you - to fellowship with you. You really
need to understand this. God didn’t call you because of what you will do for
Him; You are already doing something great for Him in just letting Him love
you. God is by your side every hour of every day of every week of every month
of every year! He never leaves you! He never will! He just wants you to know He
loves you so much and just wants you to love Him back. Please, take your time
to fellowship with God. Understand that He's with you always and wants you to
attend to Him. He wants to commune with you when you're driving; when you're
walking down the street; when you're eating! He is closer to you than your wife
is; than your kids are; than your parents, your siblings, and your friends; He
is closer to you than they all are. Don’t ignore Him. Allow Him commune with
you because you are worthy to commune with Him.
That's the reason Jesus had to die
and pay for your sins. The bible (in the 'law and the prophets') teaches that
sin is the barrier between God and man. Habakkuk says:
"Thou[God] art of purer eyes than to
behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity:…"(Hab. 1: 13)
But thank God Jesus died and removed that barrier and man can now enjoy
fellowship with God again.
What a blessing!
Praise God! Hallelujah!!!
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