We Were Made For You

I have been trying to write a lesson for youth group since Monday and nothing was coming to mind, I looked in several different places for inspiration, but I still was drawing a blank.  So then Tuesday came around and I had some ideas, but not real sure where to go with them.  Today was my last day to get it figured out because youth is tonight. So, I sat down and I thought about my all time favorite music video, "We Were Made For You" by Aaron Gillespie (I have posted the video on a blog before.)  So I did some searching and thinking and I got my lesson together.

My lesson is on our purpose in life, I often find myself asking this question, and the correct answer has never came to me until now.  So what is my purpose for living on earth? It is actually very simple, we were made for Him, easy right?  So what does that actually mean?  We were made in His image to serve, worship and glorify Him. Huh, wonder why I never thought about that before?

Here's why..."what about me?" "it is all about me" "I want this, I want to accomplish that" me...Me.....ME!!!! That is why, because as humans we only care about "me." We believe in our hearts that we can do anything and everything on our own, and we are WRONG!!! 

Without Him we would not be here, the world who not have been spoken into motion, He created us and now we must live our life to serve, worship, and glorify Him in all we do. Raise your hands, shout His name for all the world to hear! SCREAM it at the top of your lungs in front of your friends, enemies, strangers, at work, at home, at church, in line at WalMart, raise your hands and proclaim who you belong to and why! 

Why don't we do this more? It's simple really....we don't want people to think we are weird, Jesus freaks, Bible thumpers , or whatever they can say, we feel the need to "fit in" with this world.  If this world is normal, than I want to be weird!  This world is going down a dark hole fast, and I don't know about you, but I would like to be above the hole.  
So....

"Here I am, Send me," send me to do your will, send me to worship you with those who don't, send me to stand high and scream Your name, send to to catch the world as people start to fall into that dark hole. Here I am, Send me!

So many people. including me think of worship as "going to church"......WRONG! Although we are commanded to go and worship with fellow Christians that is NOT the definition of worship.  Worship is a feeling, feeling so much love and adoration that you bow down! We should worship everyday all day, not just Sunday morning between 9:00-12:00. Live a life of worship for our Creator!  Not just when we need/want something, not only when good things happen, but when bad things happen as well.  We have been saved, set free, redeemed by the love and grace of God, so why not worship Him? 

We were created to spread the good news that Jesus saves!
We were created to worship our Creator and Father.
We were created to shout his name from rooftops.
We were created to GO, not matter where he sends us.
We were created to catch the world before it falls completely into that dark hole. 
We were created to obey His word.
We were created to serve Him AND His children.
We were created to trust and lean on Him.

Are you fulfilling your purpose in life?

Until next time...Deuteronomy 32:4