Kindle Notes & Highlights
The search for the meaning of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. People want to know why they are here on Earth and if they matter. But the truth is, focusing on yourself will not reveal the answers.
You didn’t create yourself. So how could you know what you were created for? If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn’t know what it was supposed to do. And the invention itself wouldn’t be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner’s manual could tell you the answers.
God is our Creator, and the Bible is his manual. He put us here on Earth for a reason—to love him and love others. If we ask God and read his Word, we’...
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Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? … Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness? (JOB 38:4A, 8–9)
I once got lost in the mountains. When I stopped to ask for directions to the campsite, someone told me, “You can’t get there from here. You must start from the other side of the mountain!” It’s kind of the same with trying to figure out who you were made to be. You cannot find your life’s purpose by starting with yourself. That would be like wandering around on the wrong side of the mountain. You must begin with God, your Creator.
