God's canvas #1

Why are you here?
This is a big question. Perhaps the biggest.
Even the artist Paul Gauguin once asked this question in his paintings, but he seemed to die never knowing the answer for sure.
The question is big. So big in fact that people go their whole lives avoiding it [not even giving it a thought] because they don’t think they have a hope of answering it.

But we have hope and an answer, but it is dangerously life challenging.

On a Gallilean hillside two thousand years ago a revolutionary spoke up. He dared to ask the question that so many hearts had asked before and since. But this was no ordinary man, he was Jesus Christ. As he spoke the answers of heaven poured out in his words and our lives began to change.

"Let me tell you why you are here. You're here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavours of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You've lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage.
"Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colours in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I'm putting you on a light stand. Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand - shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven." Matt 5:13-16 (Msg)

This week as we meditate on how to live out our purpose as a canvas' displaying God-colours to the world, let these words of Jesus become our daily anthem; a song that resounds with our purpose, our desire, our life.