Right after college I worked a little over a year at Hewlett-Packard doing technical support for their JetDirect network printing devices. I remember one day I received a phone call from a man in Indianapolis. He was not able to print to his printer in Paris. The man went into a description of network switches, subnets, satellite uplinks. On and on he went describing the complexity of his network. It was my first week on the job flying solo as a tech support agent. And I froze. I did not have one clue what the man was talking about.
After taking down all of the information, most of which I did not understand I put the man on hold. It was at that moment that my coworker, sitting across from me, who had been listening in on this call, asked one important question “Can they print to it in Paris?”
The answer was “yes.” He said, then it is functioning as it was created to function.
We can get bogged down in life with the complexities of life. People can tell you that this is a different world. And it is. They can tell about all of the changes. And they are many. But the ultimate question for each one of us is: “Are we living our lives, are we functioning as we were created to function?” If the answer is yes, then the rest really doesn’t matter.
Ultimately, the one who decides if something is functioning in the way it was designed to function is not the end user, but it is the one who created it. In terms of our lives. It is not our society or the talking head pundits who decide the chief aim of humanity. It is the one who created humanity himself: God.
When was the last time you asked him and sought his answer to the meaning and purpose of life?
Pastor Stephen