Have you ever
considered why God made you? Are you fulfilling the
purpose of your existence? Everything on this earth
is made for a reason. Whenever a thing loses its
meaning, it is thrown away or left to disintegrate.
A watch is made to tell time. It is well kept and
maintained until it stops running and is
irreparable. Then it is thrown out and a replacement
is purchased.
Visible
Man Expressing the Invisible God
The Bible tells us
that man was made in the image of God to contain and
express God. God is invisible but He made a visible
man with the purpose that man might contain Him and
express all that He is in His divine attributes such
as love and righteousness, which are two of the many
attributes of the invisible God. Even though man was
made in the image of God, he still needs God as his
life in order to express God.
Man to God is like a glove to a hand. Man, the
glove, is made in the image of God, the hand. Yet
man the glove does not have God the hand inside him.
A glove has a thumb and four fingers; it is shaped
like a hand, yet it is not a hand. The hand needs to
be inserted into the glove to make the glove full
and meaningful. Without the hand, the glove is a
meaningless waste. One "finger" of God is love.
Another "finger" of God is righteousness. Man was
created with the shape of those "fingers" yet
without the reality of the "fingers" - God Himself.
Man's Love
Compared to God's Love
The situation of man
today is absolutely different from the original
intention of God for man. Man may love, but man's
love is selfish and short-lived. Man's love is
neither all-inclusive nor eternally lasting. Man
only loves the ones whom he prefers, the ones dear
to him. Even his love to these ones fluctuates. A
man may love a woman and marry her, yet dislike or
hate her after they are married because of something
that she does.
God's love is not like that. God's love is
impartial and eternal. God's love is eternal because
God is love and God is eternal. He cannot stop
loving man. God loved man even after man had sinned
against Him and had become His enemy. Although man
was destined to die eternally, God still loved man
to the uttermost. In order to rescue man from death
back to Himself so that man may express Him, He even
became a man - Jesus - to die for man. His love for
man caused Him to enter into man to live in man so
that He could be one with man eternally. His love is
ultimate and perfect. His love is all-inclusive and
eternal.
Man's
Righteousness Compared to God's Righteousness
Man also has a problem
with righteousness. Without God, it is impossible
for man to be righteous. Firstly, man is not right
with God. Man does not know his Creator and does not
care for Him. Man even became His enemy. Secondly,
man is not right with others. Some rob, some steal,
some lie, and some kill. Even some congressmen,
judges and policemen break the law that they
legislate or are supposed to uphold. Where is
righteousness? Some employees use company property
such as the telephone, office supplies, copy
machines, and computers for personal use. Some evade
taxes. Some borrow things and never return them.
Man
without God is full of unrighteousness.
God is righteous to
the uttermost. He is righteousness. He cannot be
unrighteous with Himself or with others. His kingdom
is established on righteousness. He does not
practice nepotism. Even though He loved man, He
still had to condemn man for man's unrighteousness,
based on His righteousness. But He Himself paid the
price for man - the death penalty - so that He could
forgive man. He came and died for man to satisfy His
righteousness so that man would not have to die but
could take Him in as life and live in Him. He is
truly the loving and righteous One.
Man Trying
to Be Like God
Because man was
created in the image of God, man has the desire to
be like God. But when man tries to love and be
righteous, he cannot do it. Man is weak in loving
and acting righteously but strong in hating and
acting unrighteously because man has a sinful nature
in him and lacks the life of God. It is not possible
for man to love and be righteous unless he receives
God into him. When God lives inside of man, man can
love and be as righteous as God.
The Mosaic
Law was a Picture of God
God decreed the law
through Moses 3,500 years ago. When the people of
God heard the law, they told Moses that they would
do whatever God said. Soon after that, they
completely failed with respect to the requirement of
the law. The reason that they all failed is that the
law is a picture of God and a description of God's
nature and actions. Only God can fulfill the law.
Fallen man could never fulfill the law.
Man continued to fail until Jesus Christ
came. Jesus, as a man, was the embodiment of God. He
was more than able to fulfill the law. He was the
only man that ever lived who could do that. He even
uplifted the law from merely restricting outward
acts to regulating inward feelings. For example, the
law forbade adultery. But Jesus said that even to
lust after a woman in one's heart is to commit
adultery. As another example, the law commanded
people not to murder. But Jesus said that even to
hate another person in one's heart is to commit
murder. No man of flesh can fulfill this law, no
matter how much he determines and tries. What
everyone needs is the life of God. Jesus not only
taught the higher law, but He was also able to
fulfill the law with ease. He is ready to do it
again within everyone who believes into Him,
receives Him as life, and lives according to the
Spirit of God who dwells in all believers. What is
impossible for fallen man is possible with God.
How to
Fulfill the Meaning of Our Human Existence
What you and I need is
to receive this God into us. When we contain and
express Him, we are fulfilling the meaning of our
existence. Without receiving Him into us, we cannot
express God in His love and righteousness; we are
meaningless and are a senseless contradiction on
this earth. Our existence becomes a waste.
Today, God's name is Jesus, because God
became a man named Jesus two thousand years ago. He
died and rose for us. He is now the Spirit. When we
call on His name, God comes into us as the Spirit.
He will fill our being with Himself so that we may
express all that He is. He will fulfill the purpose
of your existence.
Pray, "Lord Jesus, come into me to be my life. I
need You to live inside of me so that I may fulfill
Your purpose in creating me. I want to express You.
I do not want to be a senseless contradiction any
longer. Thank You, Lord, for dying for me and coming
into me."
Bible Verses for Your
Reading:
Genesis
1:26 And God
said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over all the
earth.
2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money,
boasters, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy.
Matthew 5:46
For if you love those who love you, what reward do
you have?
Jeremiah 31:3
Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love:
therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
John 3:16
For God so
loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that every one who believes into Him would not
perish, but would have eternal life.
Romans 5:8
But God commends His own love to us in that while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:10
For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God
through the death of His Son, much more we will be
saved in His life.
John 14:23
If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My
Father will love him, and We will come to him and
make an abode with him.
Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon
all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold
down the truth in unrighteousness.
Romans 1:21
Because though they knew God, they did not glorify
Him as God or thank Him, but rather became vain in
their reasonings, and their heart, lacking
understanding, was darkened.
Romans 6:13
Neither present your members as weapons of
unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to
God as alive from the dead, and your members as
weapons of righteousness to God.
1 John 2:29
He is righteous.
Revelation 5:9
You were slain and have purchased for God by Your
blood men out of every tribe and tongue and people
and nation.
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of offenses.
Hebrews 9:22
Without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
1 John 5:12
He who has the Son has the life.
Romans 8:3
For that which the law could not do, in that it was
weak through the flesh.
Romans 7:17
Now then it is no longer I that work it out, but sin
that dwells in me.
Romans 7:19
For I do not do the good which I will; but the evil
which I do not will, this I practice.
John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and
reality came through Jesus Christ.
Colossians 2:9
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead
bodily.
Matthew 5:28
Every one who looks at a woman in order to lust
after her has already committed adultery with her in
his heart.
Matthew 5:22
Every one who is angry with his brother shall be
liable to the judgment.
Matthew 5:17
Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or
the
prophets; I have not come to abolish, but to
fulfill.
Romans 8:4
That the righteous requirement of the law might be
fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the
flesh but according to the spirit.
Luke 18:27
The things that are impossible with men are possible
with God.
2 Corinthians
3:17 And the
Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is freedom.
John 20:22
And when He had said this, He breathed into them and
said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.
Romans 10:13
Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved.