May
2009
IDOLATRY: DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU ARE HERE?
It’s a fair question, since most of us want to be remembered when we are gone. What is life all about anyway? It can’t be just be about what I can get out of it by way of fun and pleasure, because somehow that never lasts very long. I thought I had figured out that life is what I make of it, but life has a way of reducing me to the lowest common denominator, so that I become whatever I put my energy into!
G. K. Beale says we become what we worship, either for redemption or ruin! So if I make the stuff around me the focus of my life… I become shallow, miserable and dissatisfied, because it is never enough, and because none of it provides me with a sense of purpose, or the sense that I am leaving a meaningful legacy behind. When I am gone, there maybe nothing of substance left to show that I have been here. I will have become as empty as the stuff I worshiped! So why do I have this craving to matter, to be somebody, to leave something behind, to have had a purpose for my life? I mean it is eating me up!
In Genesis 1:26-31 the Bible gives us a clue… God created us to be imagers of his glory, to reflect his attributes in this world and serve his purpose through diligent obedience to his will. Actually he created me with a purpose for my life in mind!
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