I know a lot of people who are working hard to become famous.
Or rich, or beautiful, or successful, or whatever.
The reality of it is, the reason I woke up this morning was NOT to further my personal life ambition. I exist today to worship God and make the name of Jesus famous.
Period.
Sure, that's a very compact version of the "purpose of life." Still I am convinced that if I have not done something today that magnifies the God I claim to have devoted my life to, I have wasted another twenty four hours of a very short life that was designed for the glory and pleasure of my Savior.
It sounds like a quaintly self-sacrificial concept, but it's a discipline and an honor and a difficulty and a pleasure to exist for the fame of the one who loves me so deeply that he puts up with my ignorant failures and my stupidity daily just to be close to me.
I want to learn how to do that.
"We ourselves are to be, today perhaps more than at any other time in history, evidence to all of God's unmerited grace and of the hope that is inspired by the cross."
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