Has man lost his purpose? Has he forgotten the Who and What of his
creation? Is it too late?
Once there was a man, who persecuted
and killed Christians. He was stopped in his tracks on his way to bring in more
Christians to the prison system. By being struck with blindness, both in the
literal sense and in the spiritual sense, he was shown through this case of blindness
his wrongs. It was Saul. He was brought blind into a town where Ananias, a
devote man, came and told him, “Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same
hour I looked up upon him. And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen
thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest
hear the voice of his mouth…thou shalt be his witness
unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.” Acts 22:12-15 Saul was so changed in his attitude, view,
and realization of his true purpose that even his name was changed from Saul to
Paul.
Paul became a great witness to the
healing power of the Christ, Truth. He
preached, taught, saved, revealed, and praised the Christ everywhere to
everyone. No matter how many times he
was beaten, imprisoned, or threatened with death, his witnessing never wavered.
His work for the Christ never stopped.
If we are to express our purpose in life, we must learn how
to be better at the who and what we were purposed to be, witnesses to the
Christ healing activity. We need to turn
our lives around from the self-centered to the God-centered. We need to be witnesses to the Divine Fact of
Being. God is the All-in-all. He created us to witness to His
Presence. This presence heals through
the Truth, Life and Love of our Lord. We
have a higher purpose, a higher mission in life than just gaining material
possessions, mortal careers, status and titles.
Our highest purpose is to be witnesses to the Christ, Truth.
It is said, "Mark the perfect man, and behold the
upright: for the end of that man is peace." Psalms 37:37 We need to look to
our higher selfhood as that perfect witness of God. We need to be good ‘ensamples’. We need to let go of personal agenda,
personal self-aggrandizement and to be who and what we were created. Otherwise,
we also are blind to the fact of our true being as God’s witness.
Christ Jesus revealed the healing activity of our Father not
just to help uncomfortable man but to reveal man’s purpose, to be the whole,
complete, healthy witnesses of God’s ever-present Being.
He revealed to everyone that he healed their true
nature. He revealed to many that they
must stop the sinning of thinking of themselves as personal material entities
but instead spiritual expressions of God.
Even his resurrection revealed life as spiritual, deathless,
eternal. What are we to be? Mortal,
material, selfish? Or spiritual, whole, perfect witnesses to God as Life?
Let us “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright…” Let
us see that we have a higher purpose.
Let us be better witnesses now to the Truth of God’s Being. Let us stop being blind to the Christ
activity and be who and what we were created to be, God’s precious witnesses of
His Love.
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