5/23/25

You have a purpose!

Do not be fooled into thinking your purpose is to increase your value. Do not be fooled into thinking your purpose is to fill your life with worldly pleasures. Do not be fooled into thinking your purpose is to be happy with life.

All of these things are of an impure nature. They are of selfishness and pridefulness.

Our purpose is not about us it is about God. The creator should always get the recognition. The painting of the Sistine Chapel is not beautiful because of the paint. You could take the paint that was used and put it in containers and it would just be paint. It would not show the beauty. The brushes are not the cause of its beauty. They are just brushes. It is the work of its creator that receives the glory for its beauty. The fact that it depicts the creation of THE CREATOR adds to its magnificence. The purpose of the beauty is to point to the Glory of THE CREATOR.

You have a purpose!

If it is not for your glory then whose?

1 Thessalonians 4:7 NASB95 For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.

Our purpose is to be sanctified. The word means to become Holy. It is the process of us becoming less like the world and more like God. This causes us to show the world Jesus.

The paint, the plaster, and the brush were used to glorify the creator; the creation should bring glory to the CREATOR. Our purpose is to be Sanctified, Holy, Set apart, different, not like the world but like God. Divine, not natural. As TDNT says, the divinely affected condition is to find completion in moral dedication in the form of purity.

We are to be pure, not impure. This is our purpose! If anything says your purpose is for you it is a liar and comes from the Father of lies, Satan.

To fulfill our purpose we are to reveal the Holiness of God through our sanctification. We do this by living pure. This embraces God's omnipotence, eternality, and glory, and evokes awe in Him.

You have a purpose. Are you fulfilling your purpose?

If you are striving for impurity (things that oppose God's will) then the answer is no. If you are striving for purity (things that reveal God's Glory and His will) then the answer is yes. You are being sanctified and that is your purpose!

I have a purpose and it is sanctification.

Lord, I pray, guide me in sanctification. Lord help me and all the readers of this devotional answer your call to sanctification.

1 Thessalonians 4:7 NASB95 For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.

Love Bro. Scott