What is the purpose of my life on this planet?

Many go through life unfulfilled, unfocused, searching - a blank canvas waiting for a picture of purpose to be painted on us. What does it all mean?

It was once said that there was a God shaped blank in all of us. We looked for many things to fill this: friends, fashion, fornication, and the facade of drug induced fantasies.

But follow me. Follow me to the edge of an abyss where deep down inside we all know that something’s missing…

See from the moment God spoke time into existence and shaped us with His own hands into His own image, His plan was for man and Him to be One.

Creator and creation communing together in beautiful harmony. Sounds perfect right? So what happened?

Sin.

Sin opened this void, sin drove us away from our friends. Sin separated us from Him. And for many centuries since, we as human begins we have attempted to bridge this ever widening gap with philosophies and religion, wealth and so called moral decisions, but the divisions became more instilled… that God-shaped hole in our heart still unfilled, and man kind seemed doomed.

Until “unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour… He is Christ the LORD, and you shall find the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger”.

But this boy wasn’t an ordinary baby. You see He grew into a boy, then into a man and into a preacher, leading a multitude of people with radical and really off the wall teachings, like “Love your enemies… bless those that curse you… turn the other cheek.”

He’s the greatest Teacher that ever was.

But this was no ordinary teacher. See the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, so for our sins He had to pray the price.

They put nails in His hands, a spike through his side… Betrayed and denied, they hung Him high and stretched Him wide on a cross for you and I and over 2000 years ago, the Son of God, our lamb slain before the world began, died. One of the most agonizing physical deaths that a person can suffer.

They buried Him in a tomb of a friend and for three days His mother cried, and for three days His disciples ran. But thanks be to the most High that’s not how the story ends.

Three glorious days later, Jesus rose from the death again. Oh but this wasn’t an ordinary sacrifice. Because He became the way, the truth and the life, and we now have a way to the Father through Him. Through the cross we are now able to get over the great divide caused by Sin, separating us from Him.

He’s calling us, but we have to come. See the choice is still ours but He has provided all the love. For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that if we only believe that Jesus Christ paid this price Jesus says we shall know the truth.

No more separation. No more fear of death. No more holes in our heart… We can now have eternal life.

You see God gave man a choice… You either accept it or reject it.