The document discusses finding meaning and purpose in life. It suggests writing in a journal about one's identity, including name, purpose, current stage of life, and significant relationships. It says we are defined by God as beloved children made in His image, and quotes authors saying the only way to truly know oneself is through knowing God. The document asserts that the purpose of life is preparation for eternal life, and that we should seek to honor God by overcoming wrong practices and bringing our will into harmony with His. It encourages praising God in happy moments, seeking Him in difficult times, worshipping in quiet times, trusting Him in painful moments, and thanking Him every moment.

1. WHO AM I AND WHAT IS THE
MEANING AND PURPOSE OF
LIFE?
The Necessity Of Doing Our Best

2. A reminder… some things
you heard last week…
 Called by name
 A journey
 Jesus Christ
 From head to heart
 From knowing to loving
 Conversion

3. Write these questions and your
answers to them in your journal
 Your name? What do you do in life?
 Why are you here?
 Where are you now in your life?
“It is a time when….”
 Who are the significant people in your
life? Why?
 What is going on in society right now
that is important to you?
 What is the joy in your life? The pain
in your life?

4. How we define ourselves
 What I do
 What I have
 What people think of me

5. How we are defined by
God
 Child
 Beloved
 Made in God’s image and likeness
 St Augustine of Hippo
“The glory of God is the person fully
alive.”

6. There is no deep knowing of God
Apart from knowing of self
And no deep knowing of self,
Apart from knowing of God.
John Calvin

7. All my existence, my peace, my
happiness depends on this –
to discover myself in discovering
God.
If I find him I find myself
And if I find my true self
I find him.
Thomas Merton.

8.  The only way we can really see
ouselves is when we see ourselves
reflected back to us from the eyes of
someone who truly loves us.
 But the only one who can reflect back
to us the fullness of our beauty is God,
for we are made in the very image of
God.
 This is what we experience when we
come to experience God.

9. What according to you is the
purpose of life?
How do you know?

10. The purpose of life?
The Lord has made provision that the
nobler powers of the mind should be
trained for high pursuits.
The lifework given us is that of
preparation for the life eternal.

11. But unless the human agent
brings his will into harmony
with the will of God, unless he
forsakes every idol and
overcomes every wrong
practice, he will not succeed in
the warfare, but will be finally
overcome.

12. As children of God, we should
make earnest efforts to be
overcomers; and as students
who seek to honor and glorify
God, we should study to show
ourselves approved of Him,
workmen that need not to be
ashamed.

13. Happy moments, PRAISE GOD
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD
Painful moments, TRUST GOD
Every moment, THANK GOD

14. WE ARE LOVED,
FORGIVEN, SAVED.