PURPOSE BURDEN

We were never made to seek out purpose in this life.
 
This is a critical truth to hold in one's vision. It is not a necessary evil, exactly, but a result of evil. It is a mountain we now have to climb, because we fell off a mountain we were never meant to fall off.
 
Take a minute here to think about the story of Adam and Eve in this light. They were made with a pure and holy capacity of mind and body to match and enjoy a paradise environment. It was a perfect fit. No guilt, no mortality, no sense of loss or insecurity or sense of pressing urgency to have lived before they die. Purpose of life was in the fabric, the blood, the spirit of life itself, and God moved in relationship with them. (Genesis 1-3:8)
 
It is beyond 'interesting' to me that a pursuit of 'knowledge' was the portal of destruction. Not just any 'knowing', but knowledge with a purpose of trespassing on God's domain, to 'become like god', against God's express command. (Gen 3:5) The Fall from paradise was through this door of mutiny, turning our created state against the Creator himself, and so severing our lifeline.
 
So now, as ‘gods’ of this world, we seek for purpose.
 
'Jesus said, 'I am the door. He who enters through me will be saved...' (John 10:9)