There is no point in discussing the purpose of life unless you assume that there is a God.
The focus of life is not on you.
The purpose of life is not only to pursue personal satisfaction and happiness, it is far more profound than your family, career and even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you live in this world, you must start with God, because you live for his purpose and live for his purpose.
For thousands of years, finding the purpose of life has been a puzzling problem. Because we often start from ourselves by mistake. We ask some self-centered questions, such as: What kind of person do I want to be? How should I use my life? My life goal, my ambition, my dream, what is my future? Self-centered thoughts can never show our goals in life. The Bible says, "God commands the life of everything he creates, and every life is under his authority."
Contrary to what is advertised in general bestsellers, movies and lectures, you can't seek the meaning of life from within. Maybe you've already tried. If you are not your own creator, how do you know the purpose of your creation? If I give you a new invention that you have never seen before, you won't know its function, and objects can't tell you. You can only know the function of this object from its creator or its instruction manual.
Once, I got lost in the mountains. When I stopped to ask for directions to the camping area, I was told, "You can't go there from here, you must start from the other side of the mountain!" " ! "Similarly, you can't take yourself as the starting point to find the purpose of life. You must start with your creator, God. Your existence is God's will, you were created by God and for God's sake. Life is meaningless unless you understand this. Only in God can we understand our roots, identity, meaning, purpose, importance and destiny. Taking other ways will only be futile.
Many people try to use God to satisfy their own desires, which is doomed to failure. You were created for God, but God didn't exist because of you. God uses you to achieve his goals, not you use God to achieve your goals. The Bible says, "Indulge yourself is a dead end. Only by looking up to God can we walk out of the dead end and enter the vast and free world. " I have told many books about how to find the purpose of life. These books can be classified as "self-improvement" because they are all discussed from a self-centered perspective. This kind of reference books, even some Christian books, usually provide some predictable steps to discover the purpose of your life, such as: pursuing your dreams, measuring your value, setting goals, finding out your advantages, aiming high, being bold, being self-disciplined, confident, and letting others follow you and never giving up.
Of course, these suggestions are usually successful. Generally speaking, as long as you devote yourself wholeheartedly, you can often achieve your goal successfully. But "success" and "achieving the purpose of life" are two different things! By the standards of this world, you may have achieved your personal goal and been very successful, but you still haven't achieved the purpose that God created you. Self-improvement is not enough. The Bible says, "This is the best way to find my true self, and it is also the way for me (Jesus) to completely rely on your futile self-sacrifice and sacrifice."
This is not a book to teach you self-improvement. It doesn't teach you how to find a suitable job, realize your dreams, or plan your life. It doesn't teach you to arrange more activities on the calendar. In fact, it teaches you to focus on more important things, thus reducing the things you have to do every day. This book almost teaches you how to achieve the purpose that God created you.
How can we understand the purpose of God's creation? You only have two choices. First of all, you can guess that most people do this. They speculate, estimate or talk. When people say, "I always thought life was …", it means "This is the best I can guess."
On the day of 1, I reflected on my life purpose.
Ideological point of view: the center of gravity in life is not you.
Recite scripture: ... He did everything and did it for him. (Colossians chapter 16)
Thinking: How can I not be fooled by the media and remind myself that I live for God, not myself?