If you’ve found this page, it means you’re searching. Searching for meaning. Searching for purpose. It’s a call everyone feels. When we look back through history, it’s evident back to the first writings that people sense a need for something more. Life feels inadequate, like there must be something better. There is a void and everyone is trying to fill it with something.
Today we have access to enough information to keep us busy our entire lives in the pursuit of what truly satisfies and fills the void. The purpose of this site is to be a guide on your search for true fulfilment. It is my hope that the content here will help get you closer to Truth without leading down too many wrong paths. I maintain a Christian worldview but have been exposed to, and take interest in, all philosophies and worldviews. Still, the focus of this site is in knowing God through Jesus Christ.
William Barclay says in his commentary on the Gospel of John, “Jesus is the one person in all the universe who can reveal to us what God is like, and how God feels towards us.” I wholeheartedly agree with Barclay about this but also believe that past and present lovers of Jesus have given us a wealth of information worth reading to help guide us as well.
The Westminster Shorter Catechism is one of those guideposts. It was written during the Christian Reformation era in the mid 1600s. It gives a very brief but profound definition of the main purpose of life. The catechism (or summary of principles) asks, “What is the chief end of man?”
- Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever
The first time I read this I found it laughable and I scoffed at the assertion. But after several years of study, I came to see how the Westminster authors decided this should be the first principle in their guide to spiritual life (my devotion, The Ultimate Goal, tells more about my discovery process). It’s my great hope that the material I share on this site will be a guide that helps others gladly take this position as their own so they too will smile just as I do when I read these words today.
So what kinds of thoughts enter your head when you think about God? It’s an important question. So important that A.W. Tozer says it is the most important thing about a person. That’s a pretty bold claim. Yet if we consider God as the Supreme Mover or Divine Guide, the importance of our knowledge about who God is becomes clearer. We become who we are because we are guided by our beliefs about what has supreme importance. I wrote a devotion that goes into this in more detail titled Created in the Image of God.
In the excellent book, The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren begins by claiming that life is not about us, it’s not about “personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness.” He ends the book with a five point summary about our true purpose which will glorify God and lead us to eternal joy, 1) love God through worship, 2) love others through fellowship, 3) help others grow in their love for God and others, 4) serve the world with your time, talents and treasures in your unique way that will be a benefit to people in need, 5) partake in a mission that spreads the love of Jesus to the world.
To finish up this introduction, I pray that the content and resources provided on this site will lead others to a better understanding of God, the God Jesus Christ revealed. More than understanding, I pray that you will come to know God in a very personal and healthy way. That you will enter a relationship with God that causes you great joy, and from that joy you will learn your unique purpose. And through knowing your purpose, your life will be transformed into a beautiful image of God as you worship God and love other people just as Jesus did.
Verse of the day:
As I was preparing this introduction, I was considering what details to add. My first thought was for the Westminster Catechism but I was planning to fit in the A. W. Tozer quote somehow. As I meditated on what I would write, something strange happened, a God whisper. A book in my library caught my attention. It’s a book I had started several months ago but set aside. I grabbed it and sat down to read a little. When I opened to my previous bookmark and found that I had highlighted the author’s quote of Question 1 from the Westminster! Then to my further surprise a couple paragraphs later the author used the same quote from A. W. Tozer that I was planning to add. I laughed and thanked God for the sign that I was on the right path. The book is The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows by James Bryan Smith.
The choir I sing in regularly sings a hymn Ancient Words and the words in it come to mind, “Ancient words ever true; Changing me, and changing you.” (The video is not my choir)
The Lyrics in song I Love To Tell The Story also come to mind, “I love to tell the story; ‘twill be my theme in glory to tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.”
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