What is the purpose of your life?
Many think their purpose is to hold a job, earn money and save up for the future. Others idle their time away, looking for ways to amuse themselves. Some feel depressed and wonder why they are alive.
Whatever role one is playing out, it helps to understand that there is a much greater and grander goal to pursue than anything that will ever be found through the physical senses.
We have a spiritual existence with God that precedes the earthly experience and lasts forever after it.
No amount of money will purchase it. No amount of time lost in the amusement of the senses will find it. Depression and sadness would deny it. It is found through spiritual growth and understanding of God!
Every experience we have is an opportunity to learn valuable spiritual lessons that help us understand God better.
With God, limits disappear, supply is discovered, health is found, and sadness vanishes.
The purpose of life is to know God.
Beautifully described!
The best!
Thank you Evan for this reflective moment and reminder. Always “at Home” with our loving Parent Mind.
“To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.” (John 18:37) When our mental door is open wide to God’s thoughts of man, His complete likeness, we shall rejoice in proving that our spiritual purpose is perpetual, not intermittent. We can know, every hour, of angel thoughts present to be entertained, (sometimes unawares).
Beautiful! Thank you Patricia.
This fits perfectly with your article in the Sentinel of March 16. Thank you so much, Evan, for all the precious insights you share with us! I send much gratitude your way.
Such a basic lesson and so important. Evan, I appreciated the your comments about amusement. I have learned (still learning) how material sense will want to fill up what it considers a void, whereas the truth that there is no void leads to leads to feeling fulfilled.
Thank you Evan and all. Blessings on your day.
Thank you Evan ~ perfection!
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Thank you so much! What a blessing.
Such a beautiful reminder that staying home and “doing nothing” is not what we are about.
We are becoming closer to God; we are never alone. Be well, everyone!!!
Very uplifting,Thank you! When I read todays JSH daily thought the word chrysalis for me brought it all together. thanks again!
So wonderful, Evan! You’ve covered it all. I’m so grateful for your inspired daily posts.
I LOOOVE this post Evan!! I have often tried to explain this to someone but somehow I can’t do it without sounding “ holier than thou” or alienating towards the other person but the way you have written this is perfect and no one could take offence . Thankyou , I’ll keep this for future reference.
Yes, yes, yes….and to know God, to love God blesses All of His creation. “What am I? …..I am able to impart truth, health and happiness, and and this is my rock of salvation and my reason for existing.” My. 165:19
Many years ago I was asked to play my guitar in a Christian church. One song was called Purpose
and I never forgot the first few lines…..
Do you have a purpose in life?
Do you have a purpose in life?
You know there really is none
unless you find it in Christ.
The simpliest of lines…. but a very meaningful verse it has been throughout my life !
It supports so clearly what Jesus taught us and how Mary Baker Eddy helped explain why!
“The purpose in life is to know God”
And to know God is to express God.
And to express God is to be a living blessing to every one we meet, bringing joy to the sorrowing, health to the sick, inspiration to those buried in drudgery.
Expressing God’s deep love for others does good! I was always trying to encourage a check-out woman who was always dreary and discouraged– years and years. I found out she had been a professor and a writer in her home country, and I firmly encouraged her to keep writing, because if God gave her that talent, the world needed it! I didn’t see her for a long time, then she was back again, but this time her face was radiant with absolute joy! “I listened to you! I wrote a book! It’s a wonderful book! God gave me such inspiration. I am so happy now,”
Know God. Know Her child.
That is indeed our purpose. “We have a spiritual existence with God that precedes the earthly existence” continues throughout what appears as an earthly existence ( but really isn’t) “and “lasts forever after it.” It is a continuing existence without interruption. Years ago, I imagined that eternal life was like travelling on a child’s toy train running on a circular track and you hop off the train onto a station platform at birth, walk along the platform and get back in the train at death. Then I realized that we never get off the train, because we are always journeying within Life, God, living out His purpose for us, wherever we appear to ourselves or to others to be. Life is never interrupted by any material dream. There is no birth or death for a spiritual idea. We are always in the bosom of the Father-Mother God. There is no way to be outside of infinite God.
Thanks so much for reminding me of this, Evan.
Thank you Evan, am very grateful for today”s comforting spiritual views on the real spiritual purpose of our Life. Yes and that Life is God with all wonderful possibilities to express God joyfully!
Your Blog blessed me every Single day, thanks a lot for it!
Your spiritual insight Evan is what I look forward to in your blogs every weekday morning. And what a blessing the comments are from those elaborating on your main topic.