Emptiness of Life until
Many people today say they are trying to find themselves. These people are running around, trying to find themselves. This search is meaningless. If you don’t know who you are, how do you know what to look for? And how do you know when you have found it, since you don’t know what you are looking for?
Toasters don’t find themselves. Refrigerators don’t find themselves. Appliances don’t find themselves because their purpose has been assigned by another. A toaster doesn’t have to find its reason for being; it’s just got to do what the manufacturer had in mind.
Christians don’t have to look for themselves. God has already consigned to us a divine reason for being. Our purpose is to fulfill it. If we are not fulfilling His purposes, days, weeks, and months go by as we watch more television, hook up with more friends, and try to get better jobs—and our lives still feel empty because we are disconnected from the purposes of God.124[1]
[1] Tony Evans, Book of Illustrations: Stories, Quotes, and Anecdotes from More than 30 Years of Preaching and Public Speaking
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