Sometimes, you can feel all alone, even in a crowd. Even when dozens of friends and family offer to talk, you still feel like you have no one to talk to. You feel all alone. You feel like everyone thinks you are worthless. Sometimes, you even believe it yourself. You are not worthless and alone.
God created you for a reason. The purpose of your life is three-fold.
1. God created you because He loves you. Before you were ever born, He loved you. Before He created the universe, He loved you. He loves you now. He always will. “I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3).
2. He created you so you could love others and lead them to Christ (2 Corinthians 5:18-19, Matthew 28:16-20). He tells us to love one another, as we do ourselves. He knows that we feel more complete when we share the love that He instills in us.
3. We were created to do good works. He prepared us in advance to do good works, to share our love, to share His love, to feed the poor, to give water to the thirsty, to help widows and orphans, to heal the blond, to make they lame to walk again, to visit those in prison. Whatever God had told you to do, He had prepared you for it (Ephesians 2:10).
You are not worthless and alone. You have a reason to live. You are on an exciting mission, a mission from God.
Take Up Our Cross Daily and Follow Him
The thing that most tempted Adam and Eve still tempts us. He persuaded them that they could “be like gods.” He lied. He told them that they could be their own masters. History proves, however, that one may either make God our master or make sin our master. Never has a man been his or her own master.
Likewise, we deny ourselves and serve God, or we deny God and serve ourselves. There is no compromise.
There is no turning back… Not once we are set free.
Cast all you cares upon Him…
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