What is the Purpose of Life?
If you were to make a long trip, what would you bring for your trip’s duration? You might need money, clothing, personal hygiene products, tech devices, ect. Whether people realize it or not, everyone is already on a trip, and that trip is to eternity. So the question is what are we packing for our trip?
The wise choice would be whatsoever is needful and useful for the duration of the trip. What we eat for breakfast, for instance, is not portable into eternity. Our great business deal that netted us thousands of dollars is not portable into eternity. Instead, that which is portable into eternity are the sum total of our relationships. Our first relationship of importance is obviously with God. Of secondary importance are our relationships with other people. Foremost in importance of those secondary relationships would be with people who will meet us at our destination, as there’s not much benefit in building relationships with those who will not join us, so in terms of building human relationships, building as many Christian relationships as possible, would seem to be the wiser and most eternally beneficial choice.
1st Corinthians 13:13: “But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
The time will come when faith and hope are obsolete. Someday faith will be sight, and everything hope could hope for will have already been achieved. But love, character and convictions will all be useful and continuous throughout eternity. Those attributes which continue throughout eternity, would likely seem to be of primary focus to God, who already exists ahead of us in eternity.
Question: What are we here to do on earth and what should be our focus?
Answer: The purpose of life is to focus on that which is portable into eternity.
