What’s Our Common Purpose?
What’s Our Common Purpose?
The Westminster Catechism says our purpose is:
🛐 “To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.”
John Piper tweaks it:
🔥 “To glorify God by enjoying Him forever.”
Great answers! But let’s make it even more practical.
Love God. Love People.
I believe God calls us to experience and love Him—and to experience and love others.
That’s the Great Commandment (Matthew 22:36-40).
But here’s the thing…
🛑 We can’t love God while ignoring people.
🛑 We can’t love people while neglecting God.
Why? Because God’s heart is always for people, and He is the source of ALL love.
Love = Fulfilling God’s Purpose
Paul puts it plainly:
💡 “Whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.” (Romans 13:8)
💡 “Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.” (Romans 13:10)
Loving others isn’t a side mission—it’s the whole thing!
What Does God’s Love Look Like?
✅ It treats people how we’d like to be treated.
✅ Or even better—how God wants to treat them.
✅ It ...
How To Be Lifted
As people get older, they are prone to “soften” in more ways than one. Most importantly, people’s hearts tend to get softer – and they become humbler as the decades start ticking away. Much of our culture looks at this softening process with suspicion, wondering if it’s the fruit of humility or lack of backbone and/or drive. Even if it is humility, the public square often doesn’t honor the character of humility. Yet, God’s economy is quite different.
Both James (the brother of Jesus) and Peter (one of His closest followers) wrote, “God opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble.” (James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5) God opposes those who exhibit pride – because they are opposing Him. When people act in a prideful way, they are not seeking God – and Scripture declares they are also not making room for Him in their thoughts. (Psalm 10:4) If not seeking God, and not including Him in our thoughts are marks of pride –– many of us are often practically living in a prideful way.
Why is pride suc...
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