Many believe that life is all chance, and usually leave
everything in life up to chance. Rather than pursue something, or seek growth,
they allow things to just happen as they happen, living aimlessly and without
ambition in one or more areas of life. If they are to amount to something, it
will just happen. Especially in the younger generations, many wander through
life haphazardly, but is that the way we were meant to live? Can we really
achieve growth and maturity by chance?
This idea that life is chance so everything happens by
chance is really a product of evolution. When we view life as a product of
chance, evolving aimlessly and without purpose, there really is no meaning in
life so what does it matter what we do or how we live? It is only when we look
at life through the Bible, believing that God created life, all life, to have
value and purpose, that our view of life itself changes and we begin to have
purpose and meaning. God created each human with a purpose, and if we are not
actively seeking that we will miss it.
Romans 8:28 New American
Standard Bible (NASB)
And we know that God causes all things to work together for
good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His
purpose.
God has a
purpose in everything He does and everything He created. Overall, the purpose
of creation is to glorify God. That is our ultimate purpose, but God also has
specific purposes for each of us as well.
Luke 7:30 New American
Standard Bible (NASB)
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God’s purpose
for themselves, not having been baptized by John.
Acts 13:36 New American
Standard Bible (NASB)
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his
own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and underwent
decay;
David
had a God-ordained purpose, and he fulfilled it. He sought God’s will in his
life and lived it out. The Pharisees on the other hand, had a God-given
purpose, but they rejected it and chose their own way instead. As a result,
they missed out on what God had for them and experienced punishment rather than
blessing.
1 Peter 2:21 New American
Standard Bible (NASB)
For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ
also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps,
1 Thessalonians 4:7 New American
Standard Bible (NASB)
For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but
in sanctification.
Ephesians 2:10 New American
Standard Bible (NASB)
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
We all have a purpose to glorify God, to be sanctified
(which is the process of becoming more like Christ), for the good works God has
prepared for us. We all have a special calling from God, the question is are we
willing to find out what it is and do it? Or would we rather not worry about it
and do our own thing?
Sanctification is a maturing process. It is growth in
godliness, and it does not happen by accident. We have to seek it and submit to
it. We cannot be sanctified passively. We must live life intentionally seeking
God and His ways and will for our lives. We have to desire to glorify God and
become more like Him. God wants us to live our lives with purpose and meaning,
His purpose and meaning. We cannot sit back and just let life happen, but we
should also not adopt the world’s opinion of our purpose and meaning. We have
to actively seek out God’s purpose and meaning for our lives and chose to
believe and follow it.
You are God’s workmanship. He made you individually and
intimately for a purpose. You have meaning intrinsically because of that, not
based on other’s views of you or your usefulness to society. Are you willing to
accept God’s purpose for your life, to believe the meaning He has placed in
you? Will you live your life intentionally seeking to fulfill the purpose God
has for you?
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