Purpose

I was on the bus, reading a chapter out of a book about Purpose. Purpose means a lot these days, everyone wants to rest assured that purpose is drenching their life. I know for myself, purpose has been a word to wrestle with.

The world is purposeful.

That's good news because these days, purpose is hard to find inside violence, slavery, and apathy. God said it best (of course) in Genesis that He created things that were to him "good". That is good news as well! Just think, the God over everything who is beyond everything and is not in need of anything from anybody creates us (and everything else) and says that "it is-" and "we are good". What was all the more interesting was that this book was explaining purpose in those three words.

Upon creation, we were once good and the world was once good. And God would have not bothered to create us and everything if it had no purpose and if we had no purpose, then we certainly would not be "good".

Somehow, we have drifted away from the idea of being "good". Well, I suppose we are incapable now to be good since we are not good. But when we dismiss us as being bad, we forget the idea that we have purpose because we were created with favor in God's eyes.

On the bus, I finished that chapter and looked out the window. I saw the river and - off in the distance - the city. It was a beautiful sight to see but with that beauty, there was also the evidence that this is broken. This world, these cities, and these people the world over have significant purpose. The doubter can rest assured that no one would exist today if that were not so.

So on this journey of seeking and finding may we seek and find this purpose we have in the Lord for the good of His glory and the fulfillment of our being.