Some Thoughts on Purpose

I am made to worship my Creator and to enjoy Him as inextricable fiber of everything I am. Not just as a part of my life, but as integrated as flavor is to salt, or hydrogen is to water. Without its flavor, salt is useless. Without hydrogen, water ceases to be water. And without the union of Christ—being thoroughly saturated in Christ—I am something other than what I was made for. A fish out of water, you might say, which is not perhaps a bad analogy because a fish out of water vainly spends its energy flopping around, its fins and gills trying to accomplish something they weren’t designed for. That fish is on a certain path to a hastened death.

I don’t always know what activity I should undertake at every moment, but I do know that whatever I’m engage in, to include involuntary things (like breathing), all those calories should be spent with gratitude since they’re not only provided by Him, but enabled and sustained by Him as well. If I am created in His image, by God and for God, then any purpose pursued outside of Christ is just desperate flopping.