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Our Purpose in Life

Fortunately, God has made things very clear. He hasn't left us to wander hopelessly in the dark. In the Bible we find God's purpose for all men and women clearly spelled out.

God said in Isaiah 43:6-7 ... "I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made" (emphasis added).

There it is, the answer to the most important question in all of life!

God made you and me for his glory. Our existence isn't the result of a cosmic accident. We are not the by-products of a massive explosion that occurred six billion years ago. No, we were created by God for his glory. To bring something glory means to make it look great. When an Olympic weight lifter wins a gold medal for his country, he brings it glory. He makes his country look really good. After eating a delicious meal we feel compelled to speak. We heap praises on the chef for the tenderness of the steak or the succulence of the apple pie. That brings glory to the chef. It shows just how good the chef really is. God is the most beautiful, amazing, wonderful, glorious being who ever existed, and he has made us to bring honor and worship to him.

To do anything else is wicked.

1 Corinthians 10:31 puts it this way: "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."

Pretty clear, isn't it? We were created for one all-encompassing purpose: to bring glory to God in all that we do. In his book Don't Waste Your Life.  John Piper puts it this way: "God created me--and you--to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion--namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life." The goal of our lives is worship. Scripture calls us to live in such a way that everything we do and say is worship to God! Worship is not simply the songs we sing on Sunday morning. Worship extends to every facet of our lives. Eating a steak or slurping a milkshake or, as Scripture says, "whatever" we do can be a form of worship. That most certainly includes playing, watching, talking about sports, and handling relationships with other people.

Consider this for a moment.

Scripture tells us that everything we do is to be done to the glory of God. Every jump shot and every slap shot. Every single and every strikeout. Every victory and every defeat.

Whether we ride the bench or start every game of the season, Being Married, or remaining single, all of it is to be done to the glory of God.