Finding the Purpose of your Life
The real meaning of your life is not the meaning you decide it should be. Man cannot define his life within himself. He is looking in the wrong place. It is the creator that gives meaning and purpose to the creation. It is the craftsman that decides and creates the sculpture from the stone. The craftsman decides the purpose not the stone. All other paths are dead ends. In the search for the reason, the meaning, the purpose, the big “WHY” of life, begin with God. You got started in God and you find your purpose in God. You are destined for God, you find purpose in God. There is no other purpose. The problem in our struggle to find purpose lies in our self centred view point of life and living. I have a life, I own my life therefore I decide what I want to be, do, become. I decide my goals, dreams, aspirations and my destiny. This obsession with ourselves will never reveal the real meaning and purpose of life. But God has an answer. He did not abandon man to speculation, to guess work or theories. He revealed that answer to man. Man speculates about the meaning of life but God reveals the meaning of life. It is in the Creator that we find out who we are, and what we are living for and what our destiny is. We do not design our purpose because we did not design ourselves. We can’t add or subtract anything from our design, our true purpose. Our purpose was decided by God before we were created. He had his eye on us; he had us named before even time itself. We have free will in this life, freedom to choose a lot of things, careers, friends, loves, pastimes, but we do not choose our meaning or purpose. Our meaning fits into a greater meaning that God is working out in everyone and everything. We are part of a whole. It is God’s whole. God reveals the meaning of life and ourselves in stages. First he revealed himself in his word, the bible, then through his word made flesh, Jesus Christ and then through the Holy spirit in the Catholic Church. The meaning, the purpose of your life is all there in Catholicism.
3 comments:
That is so true Corky. Great writing, I actually understood everything you said there. Thanks for writing.
RB
sorry, I was actually kind of annoyed by your post :) You circled around and around the statement "God gives you meaning and purpose, you cannot give it to yourself." Which I understood and then you dedicated your whole post to explaining that simple statement in a million different ways. Please expand on your topic by adding new information, not repeating it. Thanks :)
your post helped me on my re assessment. thank yu heaps :) x.
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