All inventions are created to serve a purpose. With Christ at the helm of our lives, we can rest in steadfast assurance knowing we will fulfill that which we are created to accomplish. If we make the willful choice to rule ourselves thus ignoring God’s plan, we miss the very purpose of our existence!
We must seek to find. Seeking means that we don’t have the answers and we acknowledge He does. Seeking means we are active in our pursuit of finding the truth and purpose for our life. Jesus said, “I am the truth”. Truth is found in Christ.
It is truly exciting to know that the Creator of heaven and earth offers a plan for our lives – plans that are challenging beyond anything we ever dreamed possible, but reward us to the extent blessings overflow. In this, our greatest reward is not found in the blessing we receive, but in the blessing others receive by us!
I am overwhelmed that God almighty took the time to seek me out as I was hiding! The scripture “God is Love” (1 John 4:16) can’t possibly be fully understood. His love stretches beyond our feeble comprehension.
For all the times I messed up and turned my back on Him, He never turned on me. Even when I had given up on myself, He didn’t give up on me. Even when I wanted Him to give up on me, He never left me.
Even when I drove the nails that pierced His hands, He didn’t give up on me.
It could have been you with the hammer and nail that day, it could have been me… his love wouldn’t have changed. His love and acceptance for us is unconditional. Tragically, many never face God because they feel He doesn’t want them, however this is simply not true. The issue has never been in Him wanting us, rather in us wanting Him.
He exhibited such love on the cross that day even the skeptical, cold-blooded killer of a Roman centurion exclaimed as he watched Jesus die, “Surely this man was the Son of God”! (Mark 15:39) Rest assured this Roman didn’t make such a statement in confusion of the moment. He had seen many die by method of the cross. The difference between how men die and how God died compels me to believe in the same fashion it convinced that elite Roman soldier close to 2000 years ago.
Just think it through – it had to be God on that cross! Human flesh could not have exhibited the love Jesus displayed as he cried, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing”. (Luke 23:34) If not for the Spirit of Christ that dwells in me I would have difficulty forgiving someone of a small offense – let alone asking God to forgive the person who just nailed me to a tree!
The bible says God cares about us so greatly that even the hairs on our head are numbered! (Matt 10:30) Let the reality of that sink in – Selah (quietly meditate this truth). We are His passion! He wants to be ours too; not by force but by love.
Consider one of my favorites verses:
Romans 8:38-39
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
As such, I am compelled to bow a knee before my King, not out of dutiful obligation as many may speculate, but rather out of an intense desire to return the love that Christ first showed me. In this, a personal relationship with Him is achieved and I The Invention find my created purpose. For in Him I live, and move and have my being.
