I Was Born For This

Ephesians 1:3 (NIV) Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

Throughout the earthly ministry of Jesus He never failed to point those that came to Him to His Father. Even after His triumphant resurrection when He appeared to the disciples He told them, “Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” John 20:21 (KJV) The passages where Jesus refers to His Father are so numerous that it is hard to choose one to illustrate but the truth is evident that Jesus lived to glorify the Father. He came to do the Father’s will. He had to be about the Father’s business. He would pray to His Father and His Father would send the Holy Spirit. When Jesus commissioned us to preach the Gospel He invoked the Father and when the final battle is won and Christ stands triumphant He will lay everything down before the throne of His Father so that God may be all in all.

“The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For he "has put everything under his feet." Now when it says that "everything" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all”. 1 Corinthians 15:26-28 (NIV)

The object of all activity in the universe is summed up in these verses. God will be preeminent in all things. He is the reason that Jesus willingly took up His cross. It was in obedience to the Father that Christ came to earth and it will be to the praise and glory of the Father that Jesus will return and establish His Kingdom. To understand this dynamic is to repurpose our lives and clarify our existence. To God be the glory should be our cry. From the rising of the sun to the setting of the same our lives, our decisions, our loves, and our passions must conform to His will and lift up His name. We were born for this.