Mark Twain once said,” the two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.”
This sparks the question, WHY AM I HERE? Today at this moment in time, born into my specific circumstances and life I’m in right now, WHY?
What do all these words have in common? Purpose, free will, choice, seeking, searching, questioning, praying, and finding. You find God when you find why you are here and why you were born. You find purpose and the reason you exist, to have a relationship with God who created all things and knit us together in our mother’s womb.
What has really been on my heart and constantly on my mind lately is how privileged I am that God has given me clean water, warm clothes, plenty of food, a family, my church family, a house, an education. God has truly put me in my circumstances for a reason, I am blessed beyond measure therefore I am challenged and called to be a blessing to others.
“…From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.”(Luke 12:48)
What has also been on my mind a lot is this passing life. Everything I thought I wanted to do and everything that society told me I needed to do was so different than the reason we are created and how we are called to live.
This life is passing; everything we have now we can’t take with us when we leave therefore God changed my perspective on what I want and what I need.
“Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.”(1 Corinthians 4:2)
This sparks another question of, are we good stewards of what God has freely given us? Knowing that everything we have, has been given to us by God. Are we good stewards in our relationship with others, finances, bodies, everything?
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”(Ecclesiastes 12:13)
My last question is have you lived your second most important day in your life, finding out why you were born? There are seven more days until we celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus, knowing that He paid the price for our sins, giving us the gift of life. The most important day of my entire life was the day I asked Jesus to forgive me of my sins and accepted Him as my Savior. So no longer is it WHY AM I HERE? But rather I AM HERE… to love God and to love people.
