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MEANING AND PURPOSE 

JEREMIAH 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

EPHESIANS 2:10

"For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

I have been known to say from the pulpit, "God doesn't shoot blanks." He never does anything for no reason. Everything God has ever created, spoken into being, and declared has purpose, or it would not have been done. 

ISAIAH 55:11

"So is My Word that goes out from My mouth. It will not return to Me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."

There is meaning and purpose for your life. You are not a mistake or an afterthought. The Cross of Jesus Christ, His sacrificial death, His Resurrection, and His Ascencion all declare that your life has meaning and a purpose. You matter to God! Those who have trusted in Jesus Christ, know this, God has delivered you from the dominion of darkness and translated you into the Kingdom of His Son, Jesus Christ, in Whom you have redemption by His blood, the forgiveness of your sin, all of it.

Up to this juncture in human history, God has spared your life. He has exposed you to His Living Word, Jesus Christ. He has run you down, overtaking you, given you the gift of conviction that you might confess your sin and abandon them in repentance. He has saved you by grace through faith, believing Him.

There are some whose lives have been spared over and over again. How has God spared you? Remember and realize, because you are still breathing, that your life has purpose and meaning! I was told about a guy who had four deadly overdoses: redeemed by Jesus' intervention. I was informed that this same person tried to end his life by three attempted suicides: failed by God's intervention. I saw the Lord Jesus raise a person from the dead because the meaning and purpose of their life was not over. There is purpose and meaning for this one and everyone who will but believe and receive. 

God's purpose for you, for me, for everyone broken by sin, is that we become new creations in Christ Jesus. For there is a purposeful, meaningful life to be lived out, lived into by the power of the Holy Spirit. He comes to live the resurrection Life of Jesus Christ in us. God works in those who are His both to will and to do those things He has prepared for us to walk in, live in, experiencing His Presence, His will and to know "meaning."

The "every-dayness" of life, the routine, the relentlessness of it all can make us feel purposeless, but daily life can never alter His purpose. We are easily distracted by the mondain, and our ancient enemy will and does whisper, "It's all meaningless. Your life has no purpose." Please remember with me that Satan is a liar and the father of lies. 

The moment you hear that demonic whisper, RISE UP and declare that because you are sons and daughters of God almighty, you have an inheritance kept for you undefiled. Your living has meaning and purpose that nothing can reduce or steal because you are kept by God and none can snatch you out of His Hand. Seek the Face of your Heavenly Father, pray, yield, trust, rely on and hope in the One from whom comes life's meaning and purpose with your name in it.

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