Psalm 95
A remarkable thing happened in Fremont, California a few years ago. A 17-year-old girl named Karen Cheng achieved a perfect score of 1,600 on the SAT and a perfect score of 8,000 on the tough University of California acceptance index. Never in history has anyone accomplished this intellectual feat. It is staggering to even contemplate how intelligent this young girl is.
When the news broke nationally and a reporter interviewed Karen, he asked her the following question, "What is the meaning of life?" Karen looked at the reporter and said, "I have no idea. I would like to know myself."
No disrespect is intended for this gifted girl, but while she had the ability to answer all the "what" questions of life, she failed miserably on the "why" question.
This is not just true of Karen; it is also true of many people today. We live in a culture drenched with facts, polls and Alexa answers, but most people have no idea "why" they have been given another day of life.
The late philosopher and author Dr. Francis Schaeffer said it like this, "The damnation of this generation is that it doesn't know why it has meaning."
I can't write your mission statement, but I would like you to consider five words to put at the very beginning: "I live to worship God." Why these five words? Because God has put "eternity" in all of our hearts and our lives won't have any significance unless we are worshiping the "eternal one."
The core of the "why" question has to do with worship. This is the way the Psalmist put it in our reading today:
"Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker."
Make time to worship the Lord today. Sing him a song, play a musical instrument, shout out his praises, kneel before him in frontline prayer. This is the "why" to your life.
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