Purpose, destiny, and answering the big why …

What is my purpose?

What is my destiny?

Why do I exist?

Those are the monumental questions to the human experience. Referring to the right source for answers is critical!

We so often get those answers wrong in the church. You’ll hear preachers talking about purpose and destiny as misinformed as many other sources.

How do we find the right answers to these questions? Seth Dillon helps us understand what must be our source …

Let’s say Aunt Matilda has just baked a cake. The nutrition scientists can tell you the number of calories and nutritional effect; the biochemists can tell you the structure of the proteins, fats, etc.; the chemists can tell you the elements involved and their bonding; the physicists can tell you the cake’s fundamental particles; the mathematicians can give you a set of elegant equations to describe the behavior of those particles. In other words, they can give you an exhaustive description of the cake.

Suppose I now ask the assembled group of experts: why was the cake made? All the nutrition scientists, biochemists, chemists, physicists and mathematicians in the world will not be able to answer the question. In fact, the only way we will ever get the answer is if Aunt Matilda reveals it to us.

In the same manner, the only way we will ever get the answer to our pressing questions is if our Creator reveals it to us.

He has!

“Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see -such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him,” Colossians 1:15-16.

We were made by jesus and FOR Him!

That information reveals why we are here because it reveals our PURPOSE — we were made “for” Him … to worship, glorify, and enjoy God! And that helps us understand, then, that when we come into a covenant relationship with Jesus Christ we have discovered our destiny — Jesus Christ, Himself IS our destiny!

Yet, even with revelation from scripture as to why we exist, what our purpose is, and what our destiny is, too many preachers prattle on about the importance of discovering “your own” purpose and destiny, as if there is a purpose greater than knowing and enjoying God or a destiny greater than coming into personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

There is no reason for existing beyond that of worshiping, glorifying, and enjoying God — if you’re a Christian, that is what will fill your eternity!

There is no greater purpose than knowing God.

There is no greater destiny than a personal relationship with Jesus.

God has revealed His “why” like Aunt Matilda has explained her reason for baking a cake. Have you embraced the peace and joy that comes from receiving God’s why, or are you looking for some other answer that doesn’t exist?

Scotty