PurposefooledExemplo

Meaning in life is found in only one place: the person of God: the eternally existent, triune God. Father. Son. Spirit. We were not made for a task, we were made for a Person. We weren’t made for verbs but for a noun. “For us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist” (1 Cor. 8:6, emphasis added). As Paul says in Colossians 3:4, Christ is your life.

The meaning of life is God himself.

He is the vehicle and the destination. He is the chef and the meal. He is the artist and the masterpiece. He is the substance creating the shadow of every lovely and enjoyable thing you’ve ever treasured in your heart. He is the sound of never-ending joy that every mountaintop experience echoes. He is the true meal that satisfies the hunger and thirst we cannot name. He is the security that a mother’s embrace only hopes to bring. This is His glory, and we were made to enjoy it and celebrate it forever! For “everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made” (Isa. 43:7, emphasis added).

He has been that glorious before the foundation of the world. Before Adam took a breath, before anyone existed to enjoy his beauty, He was. He existed in all his brilliance and magnitude, the very center and heartbeat of the universe. And yet, his glory turns brighter still as he creates humanity, inviting us into his glory.

But, the tragedy of all tragedies . . . we despised and rejected His infinitely beautiful glory, preferring to pursue our own glory over His. Yet even in our rejection of him, He became more glorious still. He humbled himself to the limited existence of an embryo and then went to a torturous cross to regain our entry to the glory that we were made for.

We were made for this. We were made to swim in the depths of His glory forever. This and this alone will satisfy our longings for a purposeful life.

Prayer

Father, thank you for giving me access to your glory through Christ. Please help me resist the temptation to find my purpose in what I do instead of in who you are. Amen.