Christ shares our suffering

One of the strongest gravitational pulls on our heart towards embracing chance is our desire for control. Chance allows you to choose your purpose in life, whatever pushes your buttons; career, relationships, materialism, self sacrifice are up to you to choose. Definitely chance empowers us and makes us feel like we are masters of our own destiny. But turning your back on purpose has its own consequences which need to be explored before finally deciding.

If there is no grand purpose in our world then our destiny has no point and no meaning. We exchange being made in the image of God with being no different to any other animal that lives for a time, dies and returns to dust.

Chance is the great deceiver and robber of our age. It is a tragedy to go from being made in God’s image to being reduced to a creature that lives only in response to impulses, genetic make up and instincts. There is much tragedy and suffering in our world. Chance doesn’t care about our suffering but God does. Jesus Christ was willing to share in our suffering; he knows what it is like to be tired, hungry, disappointed, angry, betrayed, abused, tortured and killed. It was not chance that put Christ on the cross but God’s purpose. Christ suffered so that he could heal the wounded, forgive the guilty, reconcile those who rebelled and return us (who believe in Christ) to our purpose of being made in the image of God. Chance gives you the freedom of a meaningless animal; purpose restores your true position of privilege before God.

Explore God’s purpose for your life by listening to the message at www.godsgap.net/purpose  

the Rev (Chris Perona)

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