JAN 3

1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Memorise 1 Corinthians 6:20
“Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit…”

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE?

If you were given a year’s worth of free time, and granted free license do whatever you want, what do you think you would do? If you were told that there were no rules to follow, no obligations to be met, how do you think you would spend your time? Would you be playing computer games or sports all day? Going out with friends, or shopping to your heart’s content? Watching every single movie and TV show ever made? Your answer would be very telling, for it shows what you perceive your life’s purpose to be.

Often times, in today’s materialistic and pleasure-driven culture, we can seldom see beyond the here and now. We are told by the world to just enjoy this life and do as you please, for life is short. However, as Christians, we ought to have a completely different perspective of our lives. 1 Corinthians 6:20 tells us clearly that as believers, we were bought with a price. That high price was the blood of Jesus Christ – a currency that cannot be measured in dollars and cents. It was a currency that could only be earned through the death of Jesus on the cross. That is indeed a supremely high price that was paid for your life. Therefore we must realize that the life that I now have, is not my own. It is not for me to do as I please, to just seek after fun and an easy life, wasting my time away in the sinful pleasures of this life.

No, we must realize that our purpose instead is to glorify God! With all that we have, all that we do, all that we say, and even all that we think, we must glorify God! Is that your life’s purpose? Do you seek to live a life that is pleasing to God, that people would look at and glorify God? Or is your life no different from that of an aimless unbeliever, who does not know of God and eternity, who whiles his time away chasing after the things of this world?

Dear teen, as you are busy diligently studying, you should constantly and consistently seek to glorify Him. If the scouts endeavor to do a good deed a day, you can do better by shining brightly for the Lord, testifying for Jesus all the day!

Thought: I was bought with a price, and therefore my life is not mine to live, but should be consecrated to God.
Prayer: O Lord, help me to put aside the things of the world, and my carnal desires, but instead to glorify You in all that I do. Amen.