Who Defines Purpose?
you or Him?
(My pastor basically touched on many points this story is meant to portray, on a podcast today, so I’ll take it as a sign to post this.)
One day, Sovereign King decided to make an MMORPG. Unlike those we see, his was not designed to accommodate external players.
He designed the landscape: beautiful mountain ranges, gorgeous water bodies, and serene skies. It was a sight to see.
The first beings he created he called messengers. They were like game moderators, but their primary function was to serve as a means for Sovereign to communicate with the dominant life on the land, hence the name messengers.
He then filled the land with all kinds of animals ranging from birds to fishes—all needed for a stable ecosystem—reproducing to avoid extinction.
Finally, he created intelligent beings he purposed to be the dominant species of the land.
He created them male and female, so they could increase in number without his direct intervention (sound familiar).
He made them to be a miniature version of his kind. To reason, aspire, desire, and choose.
He did not just leave them be, no! He explained to them the rules and wisdom by which his creation functioned.
Then, he gave them room to live accordingly. However, they were not satisfied with his wisdom, even though they understood that everything functions by it.
They wanted to live by their own rules. They did not rebel until one of the high-ranked messengers convinced them it was not such a bad idea. “In fact, it is a good one," to quote him.
So they started living against the laws of the creator, trying to twist the function of things to suite their imaginations. Sovereign had communicated to them the consequences of not following his design.
Since they were created in the same design, going against it will take away their purpose and cut short their longevity.
They started to experience the consequences when life got difficult for them, and things stopped working how they used to.
The thing that really shook them was when someone died for the first time. That incident made them know they had made a huge mistake.
But they were prideful, and they did not repent. They continued to live a broken life.
Sovereign pitied them. They were his creation and not just any old creation, but one he made to reflect his being.
He decided to take accountability for their redemption. He had planned a failsafe for when they went astray.
So he gave a prophecy to the people (if you can call them that), saying: “I will send you a savior to bring you out of your self-imposed calamity.”
Some believed, and others continued their lives in depravity. Sovereign guided those who believed through visions and his messengers, adding more details concerning his promise at various points in time.
Those who revealed the portions of revelation the visions gave were called prophets. They led the rest of those who believed (and some who didn’t) based on the things they saw, all for the purpose of the promise's fulfillment. They also wrote down what they saw for future generations.
At some point, those who believed become a nation, living by the laws given to them by Sovereign, to symbolize the perfect life he wanted them to live when he first created them. The life they will be able to live after the savior comes to their rescue.
After years of waiting, not necessarily patiently, the savior came. There was something divine about the way he spoke and the things he did, but all else seemed too ordinary.
The rulers and nobles did not believe he was the savior, so they tested him at every point. He beat all the tests (besides the prophecies he fulfilled perfectly), but they still did not believe he was the savior.
Those who took a chance and trusted him became wiser according to the wisdom of the creator. They gained access to a part of life they previously thought to be beyond normality; even though that was the life they were meant to be living.
The leaders persecuted him constantly, even unto death. His death, however, was part of the plan. His death served as a ransom for the lives of those who deserved death.
But that wasn’t all. He defeated death itself by waking up from it and never dying again.
Anyone who trusted that he served as their replacement in his death gained back the life that was lost from the beginning, never to lose it again.
This rings a bell, doesn’t it?
This is another short (very short) story describing the need and avenue through which our Salvation comes.
Jesus ALONE!
If this blessed you don’t be shy to clap.
Look I’m doing it too👏.
Questions are always welcome; always.
