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"The birth of my baby girl jolted me from the apathy into which I had sunk and I began to consider my question again..."
"Surely there must be some purpose in living..."
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Many years ago, as a teenager, I began to ask myself the question most young people ask, “What is life all about, anyway?” My search for meaning and purpose included a brief interlude with Eastern mysticism, astrology and the soft drug culture. Thankfully my involvement in there was short as I quickly discovered that the answer to my question certainly didn’t lie there.
Meaningful relationships with others, while proving a little more hopeful, also failed to yield any lasting answers. The camaraderie of the pub, while it made life a bit more bearable, even enjoyable to an extent, simply papered over the cracks. The birth of my baby girl jolted me from the apathy into which I had sunk and I began to consider my question again. Surely there must be some purpose in living, something more to life than what I had known and experienced.
It was then I met a friend who shared God’s truth with me. From the Bible he showed me that God had created me for Himself, i.e. that I was made to be in a relationship with the living God. This was what was missing from my life – not more religion but a relationship, real and personal, with God Himself.
Well, the good news was (and is) that this was possible because of what Jesus had done. When He died on the cross, Jesus had actually taken the punishment that I deserved because of my sinfulness.
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Rom 3:23
His death made a way for me to have this personal relationship with a perfectly holy and loving God.
“Christ also died for sinners, once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God” 1 Peter 3:18
I took God at His Word. I admitted that I was a sinner and I asked Jesus to simply come into my life, take away my sin, and make me the person He wanted me to be. And God took me at my word. That day, 23 years ago, I began a relationship with God, which, by His grace, has continued ever since and I know will continue for eternity.
“I came that they might have life – life in all its fullness” John 10:10.
Slowly, over the years, I’ve come to appreciate what Jesus meant when He said that, a personal relationship with the living God through His Son Jesus – that’s what real life is all about.
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