“What In The World Am I Here For, Cause I Sure Don't Know”
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In the Bee Gee’s song, “I Started A Joke” on You Tube, an individual (Ludwig1936 – see under “All Comments”) commented on the third stanza of the song (scroll down to middle of page), “Til I finally died which started the whole world laughing — I feel that way all the time. That’s when I wonder what in the world am I here for, cause I sure don’t know” (see an interpretive study of the lyrics).
There are many people in our world who wonder the same thing as the above individual, because they really don’t know “why” they exist.
The Bible is the only reliable source that adequately provides us answers as to “why” we exist.
We exist for two primary reasons:
1) “For God’s glory” (Isaiah 43:7) — Because we have been purchased by the precious blood of Christ, we are to “glorify” God in our body, and in our spirit, which are God’s (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). We “glorify” God, when people “see our good works and glorify God which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16; cf. 1 Peter 2:12).
2) For God’s “pleasure” (Revelation 4:11 KJV) — Note the word “pleasure” in the following passages:
In Ephesians 1:5, Paul states, “God has predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will….”
God has also “made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself” (Ephesians 1:9 KJV).
Then in Philippians 2:13 KJV, Paul states that “it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.”
Conclusion:
As children of God (Gal. 3:26; cf. Romans 8:13-16), when we fully do (or obey – Romans 1:3-6; Romans 16:25-26) the “will” of the Father as expressed in the New Testament (Matthew 7:21; cf. Hebrews 5:8-9; James 1:21-25), God is receiving both “glory” and “pleasure.”