Purpose Driven Life (PDL) - Day 1

So I am currently reading the book "Purpose Driven Life" with one of my small group members. It has definitely been a delightful read. Ricky Warren, the author of PDL, really lays out the foundation of this book by telling its readers that we were all made by God and for God. The title of the book could be deceiving in the sense where we may feel the drive to 'do things' to fulfill our life on earth such as more money, more friends, more fame, more more more... But the age old question of 'What is our purpose' can only be discovered if we, the created, discovers our Creator.

Until we understand that we were made BY God and FOR God, our life will never make sense. Imagine a hammer attempting to discover what it was made for. It is only possible for the hammer to discover its created purpose if it discovers its creator (or reads the user manual). Likewise, it is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, and our destiny.

I have been thinking about Christ's second coming a lot more lately. With the rising price of fuel, people are not going to react well with the drastic rate increase. All I can imagine, here on, is chaos with certain markets beginning to crash. As gas prices rise, market prices will increase too. People simply will not respond well. Country's will go to war and people will be in a frantic search for personal purpose (or possession). What is the purpose of this craziness? The more people 'try' to discover their purpose, the more distant they become from the creator. Created things do not find their purpose in creating more things.

This surfaces a frightening question. If this is new news to us - that our purpose is to be in a relationship with God through Jesus - what are we in relationship with now?