Your Sole Purpose In Life
Last night at my church's elder meeting we received into church membership a small group of students, who had just completed Confirmation. As part of their confirmation process, they were asked to write their own faith statement, and then share it in small groups with elders and pastors at the meeting. I was blown away by the young middle school student who shared her faith journey with our particular cluster of elders. She wrote something in her faith statement that has been resonating with me ever since. She said that her "sole purpose" in life was to be in relationship with God. She went on to share what that meant as a Jesus-follower, and how Jesus embodied the love of God for her. But I have not been able to stop thinking about the words she chose to describe how important her relationship with God has to be--so important that it needed to be her "sole purpose." This young student has begun her journey of faith figuring out what ...