Tag: purpose

A thought that I had just recently was, “What is a life without purpose?”

We all need purpose, in some way.
Whether we are aware of this or not? But I still think that it is true for all of us. Purpose is the reason we get up out of bed, even if that purpose is just to go to the toilet. 🙂

But do we actually know what our purpose is?
Our reason for just being here?
We may all try to find our purpose in different things, whether they be relationships, activities, possessions or anything else.

So the next natural question to ask, is… “Is it a good purpose that we are looking to?”

I’m not even going to try to answer that one here and now, but I’ll just suggest that you might want to seek out Our Lord God Almighty for His view on how good our purposes are.

The thing that is currently coming back to me though, is along the lines of, “How much do we seek to entertain, or more to the point, be entertained?”

We even have a very well known song, with the words, “So come on let me entertain you”, in it.

My thoughts are going to, “Is this what life boils down to?
To either be entertained or to do the entertaining?”

How much of our entertainment is just a filling of our time?
A distraction, from what really matters?

A bit of a cheeky bible verse keeps coming to me at the moment, and I’m just going to put it in. 🙂

Proverbs 31:6-7
⁶ Let beer be for those who are perishing,
    wine for those who are in anguish!
⁷ Let them drink and forget their poverty
    and remember their misery no more.

No, I’m not suggesting that we all go out and drink to excess, but if we put the word “entertainment” in place of the word “beer” and “wine”, then how many of us are actually doing this, without even realising it?

How many of us have just made “Entertainment” our purpose for being here?
To just be filled in the moment of now, without a care of what comes next?
To just be entertained in the here and now, so that we don’t even need to look at what is coming next?

Have we let the want to “entertain or be entertained”, take the highest honour?
Is there someone else who should be taking the Highest Honour?
Is there a better song that we can sing?
“Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart” … ???

Our Lord God has so much more for us than just a temporary distraction from the moment that we are in.

He wants to know us personally, for all time, and beyond.
He wants us to know Him, in the here and now, and beyond!

But do we want to know Him, as He wants us to? …
Or would we rather be distracted with ….. ?

We do have free choice, and we can choose to seek Him, Our Lord God, or we can seek …..

Which will we choose?
Can we seek something of Greater Value?

Revelation 3:17-22

¹⁷ You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

¹⁹ Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. ²⁰ Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.

²¹ To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²² Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”