What is the point of your life?

We all come to an end. 

Each of us will experience our Earthly life finishing, however that may come about. 

Isaiah 10:3

'What will you do on the day of punishment, 

in the ruin that will come from afar? 

  To whom will you flee for help, 

and where will you leave your wealth? '

Have you thought about, 'what will you do' on that day? 'To whom will you flee for help?' Who can you rely on? Who will be there? What will it be like? 

That seems like a lot of things to consider, but surely it's worth considering. At the end, what will be the legacy of your life's work? What will you be leaving behind? 

Is what we do now, in this life, of any consequence to what happens after we expire?

We may come to our own conclusions about what is next after this life, is it just a void of emptiness, is there nothing? Or is there something? 

There are many theories, ideas and conclusions that have been reached about what happens after we leave this earthly life. We all need to make up our own mind about what we believe.I'm not going to tell you what to believe, I'd just like to ask you some questions.

If there as life after this one on Earth, then surely, what happens at the end of our lives should influence our current life. If this life has purpose, then we should live like it does and make the most of it. 

So, what are you living for? To leave a legacy? to store up wealth? To become renowned? To build up something of worth on Earth? To build a fortune or a family?

Really, in a few short years this life will be over, the average life expectancy is 71years, that's not so long. All the hard work and striving of this life, what will it of led to? 

What is the point to your life? 

It's an important question to consider, we all have one -  it's what motivates us, what we spend time doing and thinking of. Where are your thoughts, money and energies focussed? 

I cannot give you the answers, these you have to figure out for yourself. Just consider, the time we're alive on Earth is of small importance (an average of 71years) when compare that to the amount of time we're not on the Earth. So, surely we should make this time count for something. 

At the end of your days, when you reach your expriation date, what would your life really of been about? What impression will you be leaving to those around you? Will the purpose of your life do you good in the end?

It's worth considering your views on the 'hereafter' because it lasts longer than the here and now, we're not around on Earth for much longer than we are on it. 

At some point, we all consider, If there really is a God. At the end of your days, If there is, how will you measure up? 

Liberating Love

Most of us probably feel sad when we hear of family breakdown, and rightly so. We probably feel the same when we hear of children who rebel against their parents. We can think it's unjust, unfair and perhaps unfaithful.

Can you imagine if that parent was you? 

We all make mistakes, but how heart-wrenching would it be if one day any children you may have turned your back on you? You do the best you can to demonstrate your love, to protect and support your children, yet still, they reject you. 

As a good parent you would bring up children in the way you hope will lead them into a happy and healthy life, yet they throw out your sound advice. 

They do their own thing. 

They reject what they have been taught and shown about what is right. Then choose to live a life which becomes more and more debauched, degraded and distant. 

By their actions they seem to be intentionally rebelling against the instruction of their parents. As a result they seem to push you further and further away. They may not call. Your very own children become distant and seem lost to you. They may ignore you. They may speak falsley about you. It may appear that they hate you, their parents.

As the parent, how would that feel? 

What would or could you do?  

I cannot imagine how distraught I would be. 

It would feel to me like my life's work has been to no avail, the people that are a part of me, of my family, had rejected me, misunderstood me and didn't love me. The pain would be indescribable, the way the heart would ache. I am sure I would be mourning for them. 

Now, let me tell you...... 

                                                        we are those children.

Each one of us has done things we know are wrong and have turned our backs on what we know is right.

It pains our parent, our Father God, who has been actively involved in our lives since before we were born.

We have rejected Him, we have misunderstood Him and we have ignored Him.

We have thought we know better, we haven't understood all the purposes of the rules and regulations so we have broken them. 

As the parent, how would that feel for God? 

God has mourned over you, his heart breaks for you, He yearns for the time to come when you choose Him above the other stuff. He does not want you to follow the rules, but to follow His heart. He will wait like the ever patient, ever loving Father that He is. He will not deny you, He will let you in, He will forgive you and He will live life with you. 

God has been distraught when each of us has chosen to walk away from Him and fulfill our own agenda. His heart has ached for you. 

He will show you, not a load of rules, but His heart when you truly set your mind to find Him. 

You just have to choose Him. 

Admit you are wrong, accept that you don't have all the answers and that maybe there is more to life than what is going on right now. 

God knew that we couldn't understand His heart until He revealed Himself to us, so He did that by sending His own son. His own son, who walked the Earth and faced the trials and temptations just as we do. Jesus showed us what all the rules and regulations meant, the true meaning of the Law by demonstrating the love and grace that was behind it. 

God loves us SO much that He chose to send His own son, to us. To us, who were; debauched, degraded, distant, dismissive and denying. 

Who would go after people like that? 

That is some heart of love!

God sees that you are worth it, you're worth the agony, worth the suffering, worth the cost of restoration. 

I am so grateful that God has chosen and chased me. I have not understood where He was coming from for many years, yet He has chosen to gently and faithfully reveal His heart to me.

Some people think that being a christian is about being a good person, and following the rules, but being a christian is about relationship. 

Would God of suffered all that if it was about rules? 

No!

It is about a heart-broken Father who sent someone who could understand our plight, someone who could walk in the circles we walk and demonstrate His Father's great love. It's about a rescue mission, for us. 

Not to confine us to rules but to liberate us through love. 

Isaiah 1:

 2  Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; 

for the Lord has spoken: 

  “Children have I reared and brought up, 

but they have rebelled against me. 

 3  The ox knows its owner, 

and the donkey its master’s crib, 

  but Israel does not know, 

my people do not understand.” 

 4  Ah, sinful nation, 

a people laden with iniquity, 

  offspring of evildoers, 

children who deal corruptly! 

  They have forsaken the Lord, 

they have despised the Holy One of Israel, 

they are utterly estranged. 

 5  Why will you still be struck down? 

Why will you continue to rebel? 

  The whole head is sick, 

and the whole heart faint. 

 6  From the sole of the foot even to the head, 

there is no soundness in it, 

  but bruises and sores 

and raw wounds; 

  they are not pressed out or bound up 

or softened with oil.