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Why Am I Here?

"Why died I not from the womb?" - Job 3:11

Job is entitled to a few seconds of self-indulgent pity on his way to deeper faith. At least, he thinks he is. One of his early questions is one that we ask today: Why am I here? Job poses it from the place of pain. When all was going well, the question did not cross his mind - though it is one of life's most important considerations.


He actually approaches the matter from the negative. If life is full of hardship and agony, why should a person even be born? The question presupposes that the purpose of life is ease, comfort, and freedom from trouble.

Job would learn along the way to ask better questions with a seeking and honest heart. He would learn to be willing to let God answer them His own way and in His own time. But for a season, he had to struggle and wrestle with human emotions and doubts.


What does it take in our lives to prompt us to ask the difficult, penetrating, and yet, vital questions that define our significance? How do we come to the place where we ask, with open and earnest expectation, "Why was I born?"


The ancients summarized it this way: to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. There was nothing in Job's predicament to impede or prevent that process. Nor is there anything in your experience that can ultimately separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ (see Romans 8). That is why you did not die in your mother's womb - because you have the potential to bring glory to Him through your life and the hope of enjoying His presence eternally.


"For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. "- I Corinthians 6:20

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