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Your Reason For Living


"The way you live reveals your real reason for living "


Read this today on the printed March - May 2006 edition of Our Daily Bread.

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Your Reason For Living

The way you live reveals your real reason for living. Actions really do speak louder than words. Take a look at your life and evaluate where your energies are being spent. Are you living to have fun? Get smart? Work hard? Love people? Please God?

Do your responses to the following questions support your answers above?
  • How do you spend your time?

  • Do you know God's Word?

  • Are you living in obedience to God? If not, why not?

  • To what are you looking for satisfaction?

  • What are you doing that has eternal benefits?

If these questions make you uncomfortable, maybe you need to recognize the waste of living for anything less than God's intended purpose.

If you've never taken the first crucial step of trusting Christ to rescue you from God's judgment against disobedience, accept His offer of forgiveness right now. He will forgive, and He will give you new purpose and power for living (John 3:16[1]; Romans 5:8[2]). Ask Him to help you make the most of the new life He's given you. Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly" (John 10:10[3])

Adapted from Why In The World Am I Here? © 1987, 2001 RBC Ministries.
Read it on the Web at www.discoveryseries.org/q0502
Bible References:
John 3:16 [back to top]
16For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8 [back to top]
8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 10:10 [back to top]
10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

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