Life’s 3 Greatest Questions

Question of Existence: Why Am I Alive?

Jeremiah 10:28 TEV – “Why was I born? Was it only to have trouble and sorrow, to end my life in disgrace?”

Proverbs 16:4a GW – “The Lord has made everything for his own purpose.”

Ephesians 1:4 MSG – “Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, and settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love.”

I WAS CREATED TO BE LOVED BY GOD

Question of Significance: Does My Life Matter?

Isaiah 49:4a NLT – “My work all seems so useless! I have spent my strength for nothing and for no purpose at all.”

Isaiah 44:2 CEV – “I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born.”

Psalm 139:16 LB – “You… scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!”

Psalm 33:11 GN – “His plans endure forever; his purposes last eternally.”

I WAS MADE TO LAST FOREVER

2 Corinthians 5:1 TEV – “When this tent we live in—our body here on earth—is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever.”

Proverbs 9:6 MSG – “Leave your impoverished confusion and live! Walk up the street to a life with meaning.”

Question of Intention: What Is My Purpose?

Psalm 89:47 NCV – “Why did you create us? For nothing?”

Proverbs 9:10b LB – “Knowing God results in every other kind of understanding.”

I FIND PURPOSE IN GETTING TO KNOW GOD

Colossians 1:16 MSG – “For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible… everything got started in him and finds his purpose in him.”

Ephesians 1:11 MSG – “It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for… part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.”

Acts 10:35 MSG – “It makes no difference who you are or where you’re from—if you want God and are ready to do as he says, the door is open.” 

Do you know God’s purpose for you?