|
|
|
Download MP3 Why are we here? To answer this we first have to answer the question of creation. Why did God create people in the first place? What was his purpose?
God created us for his pleasure and glory. We are told this in Revelations 4:11 and Isaiah 43:7. God delights in us. He wants companionship. He created us with a soul, and mind to choose to live for him. This was instated at creation when the choice was put before Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. They were told that they could partake of anything in the garden except the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
If man was not to have a choice, but were predestined to heaven or hell, why did God even place the tree there?
That temptation that God placed in the garden is the first proof that we are to have a choice to obey God or to listen to the devil (here, in the form of a serpent).
When we read the account, we see that Adam and Eve made the choice not to serve God. The full story can be found in Genesis 2.
We are here as servants of God, but He wants us to serve Him willingly, not out of fear of what may happen to us, or because he made us.
In 1 Chronicles 28:9 it explains that we should know God and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind. He wants us to serve him because we love him and want to serve him. He wants us to choose him and his way.
In Luke 1:74, 75 it explains that we are to serve Him without fear in holiness and righteousness, not afraid of what our life will be like with or without him.
Out of love, God gave us a choice.
Because of the choice of Adam and Eve in the garden, we are born into sin. But in God’s mercy, He sent His son to die, that we might choose life. This choice is offered to us daily.
In Matthew 6:24 we are admonished to “choose this day who [we] will serve.”
We can’t serve God for the blessings that He gives us and want our way. We have to choose to serve God or the devil. Specifically, the Bible says “no man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Mammon is another word for wealth or our selves, or the world. Anything that isn’t God.
This is the choice that we have. Between God and self, good and evil, heaven or hell. I challenge you to take advantage of the choice you’ve been given and choose to serve God. He has so many blessings that he longs to bestow upon you. Choose the one who gave you a choice.
Trackback(0)
|
|
|
Subscribe to our Class Bible Study Blog! |
Most Recent Blog Post
"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another." ~ Romans 12:4-5
As young people seeking to serve Christ, we are all part of the same body - Christ's body. We all are dependent upon one another. Without each other, we could not possibly survive, just as a human body cannot survive without its head or heart. To try to "get rid" of each other would mean pain, and eventually death, for the entire body. Each member has a function - each has a job to do in order to make the body effective.
If every member is important to the function of the body, then doesn't it mean that your dreams, ideas, and goals for the body are also important? We are not all leaders - we are not all pastors or teachers. Sometimes the rest of us feel that our opinions and our ideas aren't important. We feel they are insignificant, and thus we tend to set them to the side and try to forget them. But everyone's desires for the body are equally important. It takes everyone's pulling together for God's work to grow. At times we fail to realize that our goals and dreams ARE of value - that they are exactly what the body needs to succeed. It takes the input of everyone, not just a select few. Don't be afraid to share your goals, your burdens, and your dreams with the body, for you may help it to prosper. |
|
|
Come Visit Us!
Worship ServicesSunday 10:00am & 6:00pm
Thursday 7:00pm Bible Story TimeTuesday 7:00pm Bible Study ClassesTuesday 7:00pm Spanish ClassTuesday 7:00pm 
Map & Directions...  David Goble, Pastor
5334 Whitney Avenue
Carmichael, CA 95608
(916) 482-7128 Main Line
(916) 482-7149 Q&A Line |
|
|
|
Young Adult 
TrackBack URI for this entry
Subscribe to this comment's feed
