We've been attending Saddleback Church HK since June 2014. The Church has started a new campaign on the captioned title. I've just joined a small study group to learn and rethink about my purpose. I'm trying to journal my learning and reflections here.
So we are on Day 4, and the topic is we are made to last for eternity. I was inspired by the idea that life is a preparation for eternity, and also death is the door to eternity (for believers). These truths really take away two of the most prominent anxieties of human being - life and death anxiety. As a scholar, I constantly ask myself if what I do is enough, significant enough, ingenious enough, interesting enough, impactful enough..... I always worry that I don't do enough in my life so I call it the "life anxiety". Then on the other side is the "death anxiety". Though I don't think about it everyday, not even on a weekly basis, I can't deny that death still scares me. I used to only scare death a little but now as a mother, it scares me quite a bit. How brutal it is to leave my child motherless.... it scares me just thinking about it.
But as all things work together for the good of those who love God, for His own purpose, then there should be no fear for God has already taken all the "abnormalies" or unexpected crises into account before He created us.
So today I learned that the purpose of life shouldn't be about how much we achieve for that will fade one day. When we die or how we die is also not that important either. So what should we live for? Stay tuned.
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