Faith In God Church
In truth, the church is not a building or structure, but more the hearts and souls of the faithful that represent the spiritual brick and mortar of a community that Christ named “His Church.” 

What is my Purpose – Why Me?

My January message regarded talking with God.  My February message dealt with how we might pray to God as we talk to Him – and some of the mechanics behind why. Hopefully I’ve been able to enlighten many of you with my messages so far. My messages to you are not prescribed doctrine of any kind. My effort in reaching out to anyone is to examine the common sense we apply to our natural lives. This is the same common sense which often confuses our understanding about God and spirituality. Hopefully my experiences can help to compare the two (common sense existence in the natural word, and our faithful belief in God) to more clearly show you how they actually align.

Many people I come in contact with will ask the question, “What is my purpose here.” Applying our common sense thinking to exist in this world; survive and live can frustrate us. It can have us asking, “Is this all I’m here for?” or, “Is this all there is for me?”

There are also people looking for the same answer, however from a different perspective. When strife or tragedy occurs we often ask, “Why Me?” In earnest we are asking the same thing, “What is my purpose?” Many are driven to achieve, be something of worth and value or work hard to become successful if only because the question of our purpose exists at all. Believing that we “must” have a purpose, and it lies with us to decide what our purpose is, sometimes manifests as our ambitions.

Knowing why you are here, and the purpose you are to follow, is no better illustrated than through Jesus’ life, mission and sacrifice. He knew why He was here; what His purpose was and what He was meant to do to achieve the goal related to His purpose. His purpose was, simply stated, to redeem us. His purpose was for the behalf of others. March 28th, 2010 is the Christian observance of Palm Sunday, the very event putting Christ’s purpose into motion. The differences however is that Christ knew who He was allowing Him to know when He needed to fulfill His purpose; the very things we sometimes lack.

So . . . what is the point I’m trying to make here? The first fundamental of faith is “God Exists.” Believing that becomes the answer to the question, but not in the form we use so often, “What is my purpose?” Aligning with the second and third fundamentals of faith, “God Does Not Lie and Free will is your choice to believe in God or not to believe in God, nothing else,” re-aligns the question of our purpose to the following fact. If we believe God exists then it is “without” question that we have a purpose. That purpose is to be Christ like after accepting Him into your life.

Christ’s redemption for us was through the act of taking on the sins of the world. Not the sins of the day, or a certain population of people or culture, but of the entire world. While bearing sin upon Himself, His death purges them from our life. It is only when we accept this as fact, and Christ into our life, does the benefit of that sacrifice apply to us directly. Christ became man and carried sin on His nature. Christ was then, “in common” with us. I’ll refer to this as His station. He had a solution that rid His nature of that sin. It was His trial to do so, so He could be our benefactor.

Most of us find ourselves questioning God when we find ourselves in despair, strife or stricken with difficulty. You may find yourself saying, “I’ve lived a good life, I’ve tried to be upstanding, I’ve not been lazy, I work, provide for my family . . . etc.” I’ll refer to this as “your” station. Yet you may find yourself stricken with difficulties.

You focus; you work towards solving the problems and rid yourself of the difficulties you face that hinder your life.  Let’s apply common sense to your station. “God has provided a good life for you, given you the moral sense to be upstanding, given you the integrity to not be lazy, provide the opportunity for a good living, and provided you with a family to love and care for – yet you are given difficulties and challenges to work through and rise above.”

Now let’s compare your station to others. There are those who are The Less Fortunate, who have less means to achieve what you can in life. There are The Poor, who can’t achieve what The Less Fortunate can. Then there are The Destitute, who have nothing other than hope itself. What you have “in common” with these stations is that the same difficulties will befall all of them. They may come in different forms and manifest in different ways and levels of degrees, but the problems can call for the solutions that you may have found at your station.

When you help The Less Fortunate, The Poor and the Destitute, by freely providing a solution to their difficulties through fellowship, or becoming their benefactor, you have now followed Christ’s example. You understand the pain, sadness and frustration they experience because you have experienced it all yourself. God has provided you with the strength to overcome it all so you may help others to overcome the same.

As far as I have seen it . . . that’s our purpose . . . and that’s why.



As Always, May God Agree.