Why Am I Here?

What is my purpose in life? Who decided? Purpose is motivation; boredom is pain. But whose purpose do I serve? Self-serving man needs a higher calling to lift his spirit.
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My Designer's Purpose
• My Designer made me in His own image. I have finite versions of His infinite powers. His purpose in designing me in His image is that I can imitate and emulate Him. His ways are to become my ways.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Eph 2:10).

• God wants me to show others the little statute of Himself He placed inside me. I am a "letter" in which people can read about God's ways.
You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts. (2Cor 3:2,3)

• God has a specific purpose for me. My Designer carefully selected strengths, skills, "weaknesses" and unusual features to enable and direct me to fulfill my specific life-purpose. He placed me in unique circumstances, in a unique family and gave me a unique task. His design is long-standing.
Who has saved us and called us to a holy life-not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time. (2Tim 1:9).

• Meanwhile God directs and limits all harm in my life to bring my ultimate good —so His purposes in me will not be thwarted.
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. (Rom 8:28)

• His purposes cannot be thwarted by His enemies. However, my Creator gave me a will to choose between His best for my life or my own disastrous way.

• My Creator gave me one brief lifetime, known by Him, not by me, to succeed in His purpose.

• In the end my Maker will be my only Judge and will reward me according to what I achieved for Him using what He gave me. I only have to please Him —to achieve His purpose with what I was given.
But we will not boast beyond our measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you. (2Cor 10:13)
"Perhaps most importantly, if the world and its creatures developed purely by material, physical forces, it could not have been designed and has no purpose or goal.
The fundamentalist, in contrast, believes that everything in the world, every species and every characteristic of every species, was designed by an intelligent, purposeful artificer, and that it was made for a purpose.
Nowhere does this contrast apply with more force than to the human species. Some shrink from the conclusion that the human species was not designed, has no purpose, and it’s the product of mere material mechanisms—but this seems to be the message of evolution."

(Evolutionist Douglas Futuyama,
Science on Trial p.228)

What is True Success in Life?

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In the Biblical Worldview only an everlasting life is truly successful.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (Jn 3:16).

 In the Secular Worldview all Life ends at death.
If self-advancing physical reality is all there is, (Sagan) then success in life must be measured here and now! Success is temporal material gain in power, pleasure, prestige, possessions and promotion of ourselves and of our species.