Having purpose for life is the foundation stone for successful Christian living. A purpose that is higher than life itself is the bedrock on which that foundation rests.
Our culture is characteristic of people who have determined that purpose in life is defined only in what they can accomplish for themselves or in what they can get out of life. The idea of having purpose in anything other than themselves seems so foreign, especially when our culture paints the many pictures it does. Advertising and worldly philosophies, enticements of drugs and sexual experimentation, careerism and retirementism permeate our society with selfishness and conceit.
Williams P. Merrill said, “Respectable men and women content with good easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven’t begun to live.” Theodore Roosevelt adds, “No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause.”
These men of the world understood a Biblical principle. Taking up the cross of purpose of life is what really counts in the long run. Therefore let’s be encouraged to look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who, for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
The reward of having our source of purpose be Him and Him alone is the only commitment we can eternally appreciate.
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