ONE-YEAR JOURNEY OF THE BIBLE
Day 44 -Numbers 3-4 (What is Your Purpose in Life?)
“Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: "Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the children of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' house, from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.” (Numbers 4:1-3)
After God told Moses to organize all the men of Israel who were able to go to war, He tells Moses to organize the Levites (who were exempt from the war draft because they were to serve in the Tabernacle) for the service of the Tabernacle. There is an important principle here that can apply to us today; that is, that every person has been created by God for a specific purpose in life.
That every person was created by God for a purpose is confirmed by the Lord Jesus when He said, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10b) Jesus said that the purpose for His coming to earth was that we may have life eternal and more than that, to have an abundant life here on earth.
So what exactly is the abundant life that Jesus talks about and how can a person have it? As Jesus stated, it first begins with receiving life eternal from Him. Jesus taught that He came to die for the sins of the whole world - that includes every single person who ever lived and will live. The Bible is very clear that “He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." (John 3:36)
After one becomes a Christian and receives eternal life, then the abundant life that Jesus talks about becomes the purpose for his existence. Throughout the Scriptures, God teaches that man is miserable apart from fulfilling the purpose for which God created him. Just as the Levites had very specific jobs to do even within the service of the Tabernacle, Christians also have specific jobs within the Church that Christ, who is the Head of the Church, has assigned each one to do.
I believe that the Bible gives each of us a general purpose as well as a specific purpose as followers of Christ. All believers are called to become disciples and disciple-makers - that is everybody’s commission from the Lord Jesus Christ: “Go … and make disciples of all the nations…” (Matthew 28:19) How we go about making disciples is the specific call that each believer has to discover through prayer and Bible study and also through the counsel of other believers.
Once you understand your purpose to make disciples and start living out that purpose in your life by ordering your priorities and values in alignment to that purpose, you will begin to know and experience a passion and excitement for life that exceeds even that of the great men and women in history who have changed the world but yet lost their souls because they did not have the Son of God in their hearts and thus did not have life eternal.
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