Thought For Today - June 23, 2025
Purposeful Living!
By: Robert A Searles
As Christians, what is our purpose for living? Our prime purpose and
goal in life should be to know God and to make him known to others.
Whenever someone asks us what our goal in life is, our answer as
Christians ought to be: to be a perfect child of God as Jesus is, and to
be like him.
From the moment we are born into the family of God when we believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, we begin as little babies, and we start to grow
up to become the mature children of God, and our chief goal ought to be
to become the perfect children of God as Jesus is, though it is
impossible to reach a complete state of sinless perfection in ourselves
on this earth because of our own sin nature and all the sin and
corruption all around us.
We should be growing and maturing daily ,and becoming closer to God
daily, and becoming more like him until finally we see him in his glory
when our vile bodies are changed and made like unto his glorious body.
The opportunity to become the children of God is extended to everyone,
for God has said that whosoever will, may come and as many as received
him, to them he gave the power to become the children of God. What a
gift has been given to us! What an opportunity is ours to be made
perfect even as Jesus is perfect.
Once we have been born into God's family, we begin to run a race, and
the object of the race when we reach the finish line is to attain to the
perfection of the Lord Jesus Christ. The finish line is not on this
side of the grave, but on the other side, but the starting line begins
on this side. The moment we are born into the family of God we should no
longer, as Jesus taught "lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth
where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and
steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
For where your treasure is , there will your heart be also"
Starting out as new born babies, we ought to feed on the milk of the
word. as new born babies, we ought to "desire the sincere milk of the
word, that ye may grow thereby." 1 Peter 2:2.
The purpose of feeding babies milk is to help them to grow. If babies
did not grow and go on to more solid food, we would be worried about
them and consider them to be retarded. So it is with us as the children
of God. We are to start out on the simple plan of salvation, the milk of
the word, as it were, and gradually advance to more solid food, the
meat of the word.
"For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one
teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and
are become such as have need of milk, and not strong meat. For every
one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness for he is
a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even
those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both
good and evil." Hebrews 5:12-14.
We ought to be daily maturing, and growing, and getting closer to the
perfection of Christ. Our strength and our growth ought to come from our
feasting on the meat of the word, and by mature prayer and meditation
with the Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit.
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