Our Purpose

  Our purpose is to bring glory to God.  And only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God.

I Corinthians 1:24-31

  24) To those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.  25) This plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God's weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.

  26)Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes, or powerful, or wealthy, when God called you.  27) Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise.  And He chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful.  28) God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.  29) As a results, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.  

  30) God has united you with Christ Jesus.  For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself.  Chist made us right with God; He made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.  31) Therefore, as the Scriptures say, "If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord."

Focus

  What are some things you're really good at?  How close are you to perfect in those areas?  In what ways do you fall short?  Perfection is a difficult thing to achieve, no matter how many hours you preactice, or how much you study, or how many aids you purchase.  And if we are honest, we will admit that we can always do better.  

  In our spiritual lives, God's standard is perfection, and we all fail to achieve it no matter how hard we try.  God knew that we were incapable of perfection, so He sent a Savior to cover our imperfection.  We cannot bring Him glory (or fulfill our purpose) through our own strength and wisdom.  We need Him, who made us right with God.  Who made us pure and holy, and freed us from sin.  It's our choice.  Surrender to Him and let Him make you a new creature.  Because we all need a Savior!