The following thought has been on my heart, and I find it’s a challenging truth to illustrate. Can you imagine if we lived our lives with the full understanding and trust that a Relationship with God is the purpose and reason for our existence? That everything else we were meant to do would flow from this relationship with Him like living water.

“And this is real and eternal life: That they know you, The one and only true God, And Jesus Christ, whom you sent.” -John 17:3 (msg)

This relationship and knowing is made possible through the power of the Holy Spirit. God took care of the details; we are simply asked to acknowledge that He is Life and self is not. 

Back to my original question, what if we saw the experiences of this world and the ‘stuff’ of this world as mere peripheral notes to seeking Him? …Letting nothing hinder our pursuit of Him…. Embracing the miracle of Him using the brokenness of this world (our sin) to purify us in the fire for our Good and His Glory – revealing His absolute Perfect Love for mankind. 

I read this this morning and I think it’s a perfect way to end this post. It is from The Minions of Time (Book IV of the Wormling Series) by Jerry B Jenkins and Chris Fabry. “The greatest fear of the human heart is not a monster under your bed or losing all your money or being left stranded in a foreign country or being eaten by snakes or drowning. 

Do not misunderstand – those are all dreadful predicaments. But be sure of this: the greatest fear of the human heart runs much deeper than these. Our greatest fear concerns who we really are. In that search for truth about our souls, we are most afraid of discovering not that we are nothing but that there is something wonderful and glorious about us. Something regal and noble and majestic. Something amazing.

If we are nothing, if we simply crawled upon the shore of human existence and stretched our fins until fingers appeared, no expectation of goodness rests upon us. We can simply live as we please, make decisions based upon the wants of our stomachs or our minds. We live and we die with no purpose other than to satisfy our cravings.

However––and let us pause her to mention what a wonderful word however is––if we were instead placed here, our lives have purpose and meaning. We do not have to make that up, for it is given to us by the someone who places us here.

By chance, we are nothing. By design, our lives connect to each other and to the one who made us.”

We are here for a purpose. There is something regal and noble about each one of a us, sons and daughters of the King. Our call on this earth is simple – Look to the Creator. Don’t reduce yourself to lesser, enslaved to the world. Seek Him and you will find Him.

“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” -Jeremiah 29:13