A Meaning For Everything

I heard a phrase repeating itself around me, like a confirmation reconfirming itself. I'd imagine if I did nothing with it, I'd be that man the joke is made of; the one who drowned when the divinely sent opportunities were ignored. Perhaps it'd be told something like this. "A young man loved the knowledge of God. So, God offered Him the Message. The man passed it down. Then God offered doctrine. Still no response. Finally God offered purpose. After that, as I hope the ending would go, the young man's life was changed." Certainly success would turn the joke on its head, but it would still be a joke. Rather than the Devil telling it, it's me telling it to him.

Anyways, the phrase was spoken as the following: "When you don't know the purpose for something, abuse is inevitable." Perfection is always one, and deviation is always many. And for an awkwardly, obviously crippled species as ours, deviation is practically the norm. And my diction here is precise. We are crippled for we once walked right, and the deviation is only practically normal for us, because it is never spiritually normal. In practice, we see that is appears normal, but in the heart the damage lingers undeniably.

As I pondered this timeless fundamental, it's clarity and richness in sense allowed me to adopt it as a personal tenet at once. After reading Doctrine by Mark Driscoll and Gerry Greshears, and completing the book's study guide, I had a curious idea to merge these two studies. Chapter three of Doctrine, for example, was "Image: God Loves." Out of this curiosity, I wondered why. What is the purpose of God's image, and what does it have to do with love? Or, what are the purposes of God's judgment against sin?

This is my answer to the joke. My answers to the curiosity concerning the divine...man, and the good news surrounding Him, are going to spell themselves out here. I will pick God's brain and investigate with child-like sincerity the point of God's most important choices. For everything He's done has meaning, has purpose. And everything we do should too.