So What’s Your Purpose?

I read something online not too long ago where someone straight out asked a person, “What is your true purpose?”  The reply was one of the simplest, but profound things I’ve ever heard.  He just answered, “One; worship God. Two; lead others to Him and help them grow.”

To worship God. We were created to worship God! That thrills me! It crawls under my skin, puts butterflies in my stomach, and makes me bubble with excitement. We were created with the purpose of worshiping the Creator.

This really hit me the other night again. I was sitting during a church choir practice.  They were singing I Do Worship by CeCe Winans. I started to sing and it hit me so hard I had to laugh. All I wanted say was, “I do, I do, I do.” Like the church, the bride, saying “I do” to Christ, her husband.

I do worship. Because that’s what I was made to do. Because I can. Because He is holy, worthy, and worthy to be praised. I can’t help it. Neither can you. You, whether you’re following Christ or not, are a worshiper. It’s what we do. Its inescapable. You have an idol and you worship it.

I’m not saying you play music related to your idol and then bow down to it. One of the definitions of worship is “a feeling of profound love and admiration.” I’ll admit, I’m quite inspired to worship my God when I hear music. That's fine, God created music. But He also created our love and admiration to be directed towards Him.

I don’t know about you, but I want to worship God in everything I do. I want to my whole life to be so saturated that everything I do displays love and worship for my God. That is my goal, I’m far from it, but that is my goal. We’re human, we trip and stumble, but He picks us up and points us towards our goal again.

That reminds me of something I wanted to share with you. I was reading something the other day that quoted, “You may stumble, but you will find yourself falling forward, propelled toward the God-inspired adventure He intends you to live.”  Did ya catch falling forward? I never realize that when you trip, you usually fall forward. It might slow your pace, but it also pitches you forward. Have you ever gone through something that’s really tough, but you get out and realize, “Wow, I learned a lot.” I guess that’s because even though it was a stumble,  and it was hard, it still propelled you forward along the path. But you have to pick yourself up after you trip, otherwise you don’t get that nice view of rising after a failure. So that was a little side note, back to the whole worship thing…

My bottom line is we were created with the purpose of worshiping and glorifying God. It says it in Isaiah 43:7. I’m not really sure why I wanted to share that, I guess mostly because it really excites me. I mean come on, who are we to worship Him? But even though we’re just ‘sinners saved by grace’, as some people say, you have to see how amazing it is to be created to worship Him. I thank God I was created to worship Him…