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)
As noted in yesterday’s brief comments, if we are
Christians, we don’t belong to ourselves. Our bodies are not ours, they belong
to God. They belong to God even if we aren’t Christians, but in our rebellion
against Him, we think they are ours. How dare God impose Himself on our lives,
to make us miserable with His lousy rules? Even as Christians, we can and
sometimes do resent this intrusion.
Today’s passage tells us that God doesn’t impose His rules in
order to make us miserable. He gives us those rules because They are part of what
is necessary for us to fulfill the reason we were created in the first place:
to do good works in Christ Jesus and to do what was prepared in advance for us to
do. We need to obey those rules, we need to submit to Him in order to fulfill
our life’s mission.
There are those who turn up their noses at the idea that we
have a mission. They set it as their mission to disillusion the rest of us of
such a ridiculous notion. Of course, the fact that they set such a thing as
their mission, that they aren’t content to go through life with no meaning in their
life, even though they deny it and
try to strip a meaning from everyone else’s life is proof to me that we need a
mission. We need a purpose. We want to have significance. We just want to
choose that significance for ourselves, and to receive the glory instead of
merely reflecting it.
How much different would our lives be if we really, truly,
honestly and completely understood that we are on a mission?
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