Not Just Drifting in Space

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Whether you believe in God or not, at one point or another you have probably felt like your life was just out of control. I have felt like I could not rest. I could not move my life in one direction or the other. Everything was just out of my control.

I have spoken before about being victorious when you feel like life is just happening to you. But, on a slight variant here, I am talking about feeling like there really is no direction for you. You are aimless, purposeless.

Moral Ambiguity
If I’m honest, this is one of the biggest problems I have with the idea of evolutionary theories. Some people obviously don’t believe in God at all, and so we are here without purpose. Some think that God started it, or a god of some kind, and then just left us here. Both of these ideas bother me, because that means that there is no purpose for man’s existence. You and I are purely an accident of nature, and somehow we make it work.  This means there is no call to be better. No way to call something right or wrong, because it just is. Whatever you think is your right can be right, and whatever you think is wrong can be your wrong. The truth is, there is no standard. There is no expectation. There is no purpose.

But what if God did create us? That begs the question, why? And if he is an all knowing God, why build and create a creature that is going to do you harm? Why even go there?

Well, He has explained it to me like this:  If someone came up to you and told you, while you were pregnant, that your child wasn’t going to love you, wouldn’t you still want to have that child and believe that they would? (1 Corinthians 13:7)

I have three beautiful and fantastic children. They aren’t perfect by any means, and they have said things to me in anger that were truly hurtful. But, did that mean that I stopped loving them? Of course not! My love goes beyond anything they could do or say that might hurt me. (1 Corinthians 13:5)

So why did God create man? Why did God create man to be like Himself? Because, He wanted someone who had the ability to be in relationship with Him.

In short, ladies and gentlemen, that’s it. That is why we are here. We were not set spinning into space without purpose. We were created by an intelligent being with the desire to know us and be known by us. We suffer without Him because, He is at the core of who we are. But we thrive on knowing Him because He is worth knowing and knowing well. The angels sing His praises constantly because they are always finding out new things about Him, and they are always things worth praising Him for.

I don’t want to just join them in their praise, I want to lead them in praise because I have found something new about him and it is AMAZING! We have a great purpose. Love. There is no greater mystery and no greater purpose in all the world.


I find my rest and my peace in pursuing Him. I find my purpose and my direction in going after Him. I find my identity in knowing Him. He is my purpose.


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