Living for a Purpose

Posted on June 3, 2007 in Reflections

You hear this one a lot when someone is recounting an incident in which their life was saved. “God is saving me for a purpose.” Well, suppose Judas had nearly fallen off a cliff or drowned in the Lake of Galilee, only to be rescued by a hand clutching at his robe? Can you not hear him saying “God saved me for a purpose”? (If so, why does [[Dante]] plant him in the Ninth Circle of Hell? Since he accomplished God’s purpose, shouldn’t he be in Heaven?)

We give ourselves purpose and those purposes can keep us alive, but they are not divinely bestowed. To declare otherwise, is to succumb to egotism or religiosity.