What Is the Goal of This Life?

When I was a teen, I also wanted to know why I was and what was the perpose of life. Let me ask you a question,Why did GOD make Man?

When I listen to the news about the world and our government I surely do think we are living in the end times. I'm not praying for all life on earth to end tomorrow but at the same time submit myself to the will of God. When He decides it's time, it will be time. Until then, I can only love my fellow humans (and of course dogs and cats and horses) and try to not make life more difficult for other because of my actions. At the same time, I try to make their lives better whenever I can. God has richly blessed me without anything done to deserve it.

Many see God as some sort of philosophical black box, but they never expect him to DO anything.



The true God does what needs to be done ... we need personal experience of Him so that we can desire a Father - son relationship, which is what He wants!.



As Jesus said "you must be born again", then you REALLY have something to offer! - not dogma, a new life, a new nature - God's!



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I was just watching a new video by Francis Chan, the author of Crazy Love where he makes the statement that Jesus ordered us to become like him. So many people, myself probably included say that they are Christians but their lives don't seem much different from an agnostic. Living for Jesus and trying to live like Jesus is a large task. But, what more on earth should we do than that? Jesus died so that we might have the possibility of being free. Such a sacrifice is too huge to ignore by spending our days shopping, playing with the kids or watching TV! Jesus fed the poor, healed the sick gave of himself so that others might have life everlasting.

I agree Condor227. It's harder to live the life of a Christian than talk about it.

It's not how well you treat yourself, but how well you treat others, that makes you a better follower of Christ.

It's not how right you are but how you love someone else, especially those that are hard to love, that makes you a follower of Christ.

It's not how rich in spirit you are, but how rich in spirit you help others to become, that makes you a follower of Christ.

Christ died so that others would live. Can you live so that others will live with dignity, with hope, with love?



My prayer is that I live up to my own answer here.



Love

As the news in the Middle East worsens it seem more and more like the end times are upon us. Although I want them to come so we can all go "home" I feel the pain and sorrow for those oppressed and losing their loved ones in all the chaos.

God is speaking through His modern day prophets



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Hear the trumpet call of the end of this age!

I was beginning to wonder if there was someone with the same belief as I have on EP. I have come across just about every kind of diversity imaginable. I am with you all the way in seeking to becoming a better Christian. One main focus: Remember that Jesus didn't go around asking people if they were perfect first. He just walked up to each individual that He wanted to be His disciple and simply said, "Follow Me." He chose twelve. Second focus: When I appear before the one and only Mighty God in his holy Kingdom, I want to know that others are there because I cared enough to help others get there too. I don't want to get to Heaven and be told that there will be no others there because of what I didn't do. I'm not perfect as a human. We can only be perfect in God's eyes if we accept Jesus Christ as Savior. Aren't you more than glad that you can trade in all of your worst for all of God's best, which is Jesus Christ the Risen Lamb. I am.

You are so right. God gave you hands to be His hands in the world. How would they believe in His love without your example?

I've been very blessed to be a part of a dynamic church that truly reaches out to the community. I'm trying to join in and serve in the best way I can. We can only do our part.

Thank you eternalhope and amen to that. The revival is to return to a life of service, It seems that too many of us go to church to be served. We sit through a 'service' and somehow think that singing songs and listening to a preacher talk is service? How does that serve our community? It only takes one person to serve on other person outside the doors of the church for a church to mean something to the community. It a church suddenly closed, how many in the community would be affected? Sadly, few.

Will add my prayers for your church. I hate to think that churches nowadays are dying off. We need the passion that we see in the Acts. Maybe we all need to pray for a revival.

I agree completely with what you're saying. The church we attend is gradually dying off (old members only) and we're trying to revitalize it but the pastor doesn't want to be part of the community so it's like rolling a stone uphile. We pray for him but change comes hard to any of us.

It all comes down to, what kind of a legacy do you want to leave behind?

You could be a good financial provider (nothing wrong with it) or,

you could be a TRUE provider - providing spiritually, emotionally and financially.

It becomes a daunting task when we undertake it on our own. However, as @pro390 has aptly quoted, when we seek first the kingdom of God all the other things are added unto us and added more abundantly.

I'm just learning the lesson of prioritising God.

Keep this in mind as well...it helped me:



(Matthew 6:33-34) 33 “Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these [other] things will be added to YOU. 34 So, never be anxious about the next day, for the next day will have its own anxieties. Sufficient for each day is its own badness.

I'm trying, in my small way, to make those reconnections. It's hard. I have to work at it.