WHY AM I ALIVE?
“WHY WAS I BORN? WAS IT ONLY TO HAVE TROUBLE AND SORROW AND TO END MY LIFE IN DISGRACE?” JEREMIAH 20:18 (TEV)
Jeremiah was having a bad day here. I’m sure you’ve had days like this when you go, “Why am I alive? My life is a mess! All I have is problems, difficulties, trials, tribulations. Is this what I’m here on earth for? Just to have problems?”
If you are alive, your heart is beating and you are breathing, God has a purpose for your life. He has never made anything without a purpose.
In World War II there were some prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp in Hungary. They worked in a factory that processed human sewage. One day the Allies came along and blew up that factory which left the prisoners with nothing to do. So the guards had the prisoners take the rubble of that factory and move it to a nearby field just for work. The next day they reversed it and had them take the rubble and move it back to the original site. They did this over and over and over. No meaning to it. No purpose. Just work without meaning. A strange thing began to happen. The prisoners began to go crazy. They lost hope and many lost their minds. They began to throw themselves in front of the guards in order to be shot, committing suicide because death was more preferable than living life without meaning.
YOU HAVE TO HAVE MEANING AND PURPOSE IN YOUR LIFE TO HAVE HOPE AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE HOPE TO COPE.
You’re not going to find the answer to the purpose of life anywhere but in one of two places – ONE, TALK TO THE CREATOR, AND TWO, READ THE OWNER’S MANUAL. You were made by God and you were made for God. Until you understand that the meaning of your life will not make sense. That’s what it’s all about.
“KNOWING GOD RESULTS IN EVERY OTHER KIND OF UNDERSTANDING.” PROVERBS 9:10b (LB)
Jeremiah was having a bad day here. I’m sure you’ve had days like this when you go, “Why am I alive? My life is a mess! All I have is problems, difficulties, trials, tribulations. Is this what I’m here on earth for? Just to have problems?”
If you are alive, your heart is beating and you are breathing, God has a purpose for your life. He has never made anything without a purpose.
In World War II there were some prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp in Hungary. They worked in a factory that processed human sewage. One day the Allies came along and blew up that factory which left the prisoners with nothing to do. So the guards had the prisoners take the rubble of that factory and move it to a nearby field just for work. The next day they reversed it and had them take the rubble and move it back to the original site. They did this over and over and over. No meaning to it. No purpose. Just work without meaning. A strange thing began to happen. The prisoners began to go crazy. They lost hope and many lost their minds. They began to throw themselves in front of the guards in order to be shot, committing suicide because death was more preferable than living life without meaning.
YOU HAVE TO HAVE MEANING AND PURPOSE IN YOUR LIFE TO HAVE HOPE AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE HOPE TO COPE.
You’re not going to find the answer to the purpose of life anywhere but in one of two places – ONE, TALK TO THE CREATOR, AND TWO, READ THE OWNER’S MANUAL. You were made by God and you were made for God. Until you understand that the meaning of your life will not make sense. That’s what it’s all about.
“KNOWING GOD RESULTS IN EVERY OTHER KIND OF UNDERSTANDING.” PROVERBS 9:10b (LB)
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