Looking For Purpose in Life: Unity

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We've started to look at the idea of where we can find purpose in life and clearly one area we find purpose is love.  A second area where we find purpose is unity.

In the modern (perhaps post-modern) world, we have so many variegated aspects of our lives.  Many of us are spouses, parents, employees, friends, children, not to mention our hobbies - we are hikers, readers, joggers, knitters, and so forth.  Within our home lives we have to keep the house clean, pay the bills, cook meals, take care of the pets, fix the broken sink...I'm sure you get the idea.  The issue that arises for many of us is how we find purpose in 1.) the huge variety of activities in which we find ourselves involved, but also 2.) activities that seem necessary but also rather mundane sometimes.  We live in a world that tells us we are defined by what we do, but when I do so much, I start to wonder, "Who am I really?"  

I believe one of our desires in life is to find a unity that ties together all the diverse aspects of life.  Taking Christ as the model for our lives, we see that giving ourselves completely to God is His desire, and learning from the Cross we see that giving ourselves in this way means God becoming the savior of our souls and the one who directs our life.  It seems that with all the Jesus did in His life, He always came back to His known purpose which was, grandly speaking, to do the will of the Father.  The Apostle Paul writes to the church in Rome, "Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship."  Paul looks to Christ, sees all that He has given to us, and calls us to give all we have back to God, and he calls this our true and proper worship.

Worship is the means to unity in our lives.  Worship ties together all the aspects of what it means to be human.  The kind of driver I am should show that I understand the sacrifice of Christ and that I am living all of my life in response to Him.  The way I treat not only my family but strangers at the check-out counter should demonstrate that am living my life in response to God's goodness and grace toward me.  You see worship is a term that is often reserved for singing at our religious gatherings on Sunday, but it is so much more.

Worship  is living all of life in response to God's grace and holiness.  

Worship allows us to have unity in our lives because no matter what we are doing, it all falls under the umbrella of living life for God and in response to His grace and holiness.

Part of what it means to be human is to have various roles and diverse activities in life, and we find purpose in all of it as we unite it under the umbrella of worship.  

- tC