Whenever purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. Suppose I’m Henry T. Ford. I’m going to add a motor to a carriage and build a product called a motorcar. I know the purpose before I build this vehicle. It will enable people to be more mobile on land. Now suppose you decide ―I want to use this motorcar as a boat, and you drive it off a cliff and into the water. What will happen? You’re probably going to drown, and the car is going to be ruined. Why? The car was built to fulfill a specific purpose, and if you do not use it according to its purpose, then you will likely be harmed in the process.
We need to keep from driving off the cliff of life by understanding and fulfilling our purpose as human beings. Another aspect of this principle is that the penalty for drinking poison is death from poisoning. You don’t need God to kill you after you have swallowed poison. This means that God doesn’t have to do anything to judge us for abusing our lives. Instead, we judge ourselves by receiving the consequences of our participation in harmful practices based on our determination to live according to our own knowledge rather than His.
Consequently, we are victims of our own decisions, not God’s judgment. These examples demonstrate that if you don’t know the purpose of something, you will misuse or abuse it in some way. That’s why it’s possible to be sincerely wrong. It’s possible to be faithfully wrong. It’s possible to be seriously wrong. You’re serious, but you’re wrong, because you don’t know the purpose of the thing, you’re involved in. This principle holds true for everything, including people. How many people go into marriage very seriously? Most people do. They go to the church, stand at the altar, and say to their betrothed, ―I will love you until I die. They’re very serious. But then they ―die in three months. At least their love dies. Then their family and friends try to figure out what happened. Their marriage failed because they didn’t understand the purpose of marriage, the purpose of a mate, or the purpose of family. Because they didn’t understand these things, they abused their union.
People abuse things because they just don’t know their purposes or disregard those purposes. When you don’t know God’s intentions, you end up abusing yourself and others, even if you don’t mean to. If you are going to solve your current identity crisis and fulfill your purpose, you must rediscover God’s plan for yourself. Otherwise, you will hurt those around you, even if it’s unintentional.
Whenever purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. Suppose I’m Henry T. Ford. I’m going to add a motor to a carriage and build a product called a motorcar. I know the purpose before I build this vehicle. It will enable people to be more mobile on land. Now suppose you decide ―I want to use this motorcar as a boat, and you drive it off a cliff and into the water. What will happen? You’re probably going to drown, and the car is going to be ruined. Why? The car was built to fulfill a specific purpose, and if you do not use it according to its purpose, then you will likely be harmed in the process.
We need to keep from driving off the cliff of life by understanding and fulfilling our purpose as human beings. Another aspect of this principle is that the penalty for drinking poison is death from poisoning. You don’t need God to kill you after you have swallowed poison. This means that God doesn’t have to do anything to judge us for abusing our lives. Instead, we judge ourselves by receiving the consequences of our participation in harmful practices based on our determination to live according to our own knowledge rather than His.
Consequently, we are victims of our own decisions, not God’s judgment. These examples demonstrate that if you don’t know the purpose of something, you will misuse or abuse it in some way. That’s why it’s possible to be sincerely wrong. It’s possible to be faithfully wrong. It’s possible to be seriously wrong. You’re serious, but you’re wrong, because you don’t know the purpose of the thing, you’re involved in. This principle holds true for everything, including people. How many people go into marriage very seriously? Most people do. They go to the church, stand at the altar, and say to their betrothed, ―I will love you until I die. They’re very serious. But then they ―die in three months. At least their love dies. Then their family and friends try to figure out what happened. Their marriage failed because they didn’t understand the purpose of marriage, the purpose of a mate, or the purpose of family. Because they didn’t understand these things, they abused their union.
People abuse things because they just don’t know their purposes or disregard those purposes. When you don’t know God’s intentions, you end up abusing yourself and others, even if you don’t mean to. So, if you want to solve your current identity crisis and fulfill your purpose, you must rediscover God’s plan for you. Otherwise, you will hurt those around you, even if it’s unintentional.
