A friend recently asked me to help him flesh out the topic of purpose. He specifically asked me to think of 5 questions on the subject. Now of course when he asked me the question it had already been a log day. So I didn’t get the chance to muse on the subject that night because I was fried. So I spent the evening watching Johny Depp in the first two installments of “The Pirates of the Caribbean” and entertaining myself to death.


The next morning I got the opportunity to think on what my friend had asked of me and the only question I could come up with was the same question, the first question the authors of the Westminster Shorter Catechism started with. This question is the question I believe we all should start with when asking the question “What is my purpose?”


Q: What is the chief end of man?
A: Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

Here’s the problem, today the word purpose has become synonymous with words like famous or happy. Now don’t get me wrong, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with desiring to be happy or famous but when they become the purpose of our existence, we obtain neither and God definitely does not get the glory out of our lives.

1 Corinthians 10:31