Over the past week, I have been asking myself one question all day:  What is the reason I am here? I believe if you can correctly answer this and then work toward the answer, then every part of your life will fall more in line in a focused way than it has ever before.  Many Christians don’t think about their Godly purpose for the years they have in this life.  They live for self, money, career, fame, and acquiring materialistic things on this Earth.  I guess you could say that many believers are still chasing the “American Dream”.  God has a dream for you.  It is that you would conform every area (word, thought, and action) that He shines light on into obedience to His will and nature. God gives his children time in this world for several reasons, but this is the main one.  He has one major goal in your life, and that is to make you like Christ.  He will do whatever it takes to push you in that direction.

He wants you to fall in deep, whole-hearted love with Him, follow Him long enough, and look at Him close enough that you know His heart and live in it. If you do this, He will show you little specs of dirt in your heart. Once you clean these, He shows more and asks you to clean this area as well. The process is much like a microscope. You look through a microscope and can see dirt on the slide, so you clean the dirt off and it looks clean.  Then, you magnify the microscope to the tenth power and you see more dirt, so you clean that off.  Once again, you magnify the microscope to the hundredth power and you see more dirt, so, again, you clean the slide.  This process continues throughout the rest of your life.

Each of us are at different magnification strengths in our life, showing different areas of dirt in our life.  The key to continuing in this process is obedience.  The ones who refuse to clean an area may go through a season of correction from God and may stop growing in Christ-likeness altogether if they are stubborn and rebellious. God loves you so much that He would much rather turn your life upside-down and tear it down than to leave you the way you are. He did this consistently with Israel in the Old Testament. When He shows you an area He wants cleaned, then do whatever it takes to scrub that area clean, whether it be prayer and fasting or consciously avoiding situations that cause temptation.

What area is God asking you to clean?  Are you continually conforming your life to Christ’s?  Are you looking at the Word of God and Christ himself as a mirror to compare to?  Chances are He is asking for an area of your life to be cleaned or changed, whether you realize it or not.  Sometimes He just asks by your conscience. Other times, it’s by the revelation of the Word.  The most painful, but the most successful way that God changes a person into the image of His son, thus further cleaning and sanctifying him, is through circumstance.  Be obedient and continue on in the process.  He will use whatever means necessary because He loves you and wants you to live in the fullness of what He has for you in this life and the next. . . Holiness of Heart.

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