During yesterday's service, preacher Mike asked a question.
"Why are you here?"
Ask this question of yourself, feel the weight of it as it lingers there in the air.
"Why are you here?"
Today, there are so many that are searching for meaning, desiring to understand the answer to that question. It runs deep in so many of us. It is as if we instinctively know that we simply must be here for a reason.
There must be something for us to do. A reason why we were born, a reason why we are still alive.
The answer is simple - but it's hard.
"For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
That is it, no need to question it. We know when we find those good works, those times that we bless another person. That's we feel the most alive. That's when we feel a surge of life enter us; when we have been used by the living God.
Isn't that worth living for? Isn't it worth doing whatever it takes to live a life full of those moments?
It's there, but it comes with a cost. The question is, are we willing to pay the price?
"Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?" Matthew 16:24-26 (NIV)
