Knowing You

I read earlier today that if I wanted to know how God was going to use my life and my work I must first understand why He created me. I often reverse my thinking and feel that I know why God created me because of the work I was involved in, etc. This reverse thinking only allows me to base my sense of worth on what I have accomplished in my life. And looking back on how little I have accomplished this does not add much worth to my life!

It comes down to understanding the core of my being. It is similar to any part of any working machine. Shocks on a car do not discover their usefulness after they are working in affect on a car. Shocks are absorber parts and knowing that that is why they are assembled on a car; to absorb. I need to understand who I am and who I am in Christ in order to understand how He is going to and how He already is using my life and my work. How do I understand why He created me?

I do know that God created me to know Him and to have an intimate relationship with Him. Jeremiah 9:24 states, "but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who excercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on the earth...". As mentioned in the article I had read earlier, mankind's relationship with God was ruined in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. He longed to have that relationship restored with mankind and allowed the highest sacrifice of his Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross so that we may have that eternal life and intimate relationship with Him.

Often times we seek to fufill our purpose out of wrong motives, whether it be guilt, pride, relationships, insecurity, etc. I know I fallen into this category several times, just going through the motions and involving myself in activities that will only suffice that insecure feeling I have for who I am. Those feelings of security will fade and then I will become insecure again about who I am and look for that next activity to create false security within me. It is a cycle. But, there is hope! God's desire for us is to be motivated out of love for Him!! That should be our only motivation; love. And how are we to know love but by developing an intimate relationship with Him. As that relationship develops He will begin to reveal His purpose for you, "For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope," Jeremiah 29:11. But he cannot reveal that to us unless a relationship has been established.

There was a song we used to sing in college at our fellowship hall called "Knowing You".

"Now my heart's desire is to know you more, to be found in You and to know as Yours, To posses by faith what I could not earn, All surpassing gift o righteousness, Oh to know the power of your risen life, And to know You in Your sufferings, To become like You in Your death dear Lord, So with You to live and never die."

I pray you sing this song and long to have a deeper relationship with Him and truly come to understand Why it is that He created you!