{"id":10,"date":"2005-05-02T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.co.za\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2005-05-02T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T18:43:09","slug":"what-is-our-purpose-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/what-is-our-purpose-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What is our purpose in life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question has probably been ask by a lot of people and I would think that each of us would have a different answer to this question depending on our circumstances in life.<\/p>\n<p>I have been pondering about this for a while.  I have been battling to find employment for the past 2 years and wonders everyday why did I land in this situation.  What have I done do deserve this?  Why is everyday such a battle?<\/p>\n<p>Are we put on this earth to just worry about ourselves?  To make as much money as possible, to accumulate as much earthly things as possible?<\/p>\n<p>I cannot say that I am an overly religious person.  Yes, I do believe in God and I do believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sins.  Over the last couple of weeks after I was invited to a church service by some friends I came to the conclusion that what I though was my purpose in life was totally wrong.  We are here for 5 simple things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Bring God glory by worshiping him<\/li>\n<li>Bring God glory by loving other believers<\/li>\n<li>Bring God glory by becoming like Christ<\/li>\n<li>Bring God glory by serving others with our gifts<\/li>\n<li>Bring God glory by telling others about him<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I am doing a 40 day session with a group of friends based on the book by Rick Warren called The Purpose Driven Life.  It ask the simple question &#8212; <strong>What on earth am I here for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are now 9 days down the road and I must say that it is truly life-changing.  Things that were important before just are not any more.  Where a couple of weeks ago I was on the edge of a cliff I now look forward to getting up in the morning.  Life is still a struggle but I now have the  knowledge that if I do everything to worship God then there will be solutions to all my problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question has probably been ask by a lot of people and I would think that each of us would have a different answer to this question depending on our circumstances in life. I have been pondering about this for <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/what-is-our-purpose-in-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  What is our purpose in life?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}