Our mission of Praise
A remarkable thing happened in Fremont, California a few years ago. 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.”
With no disrespect intended for this gifted girl, she had the ability to answer all of the “what” questions of life, but failed miserably on the “why” question.
This is not just true of Karen, it is also true of the vast majority of Americans today. We live in a culture drenched with facts and high tech devices, but most Americans 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 purpose 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 sing for joy to the Lord
Let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation
Let us extol him with music and song
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 prayer. This is the “why” to your life.
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