What's the Goal Anyway?

     Many believe the goal of the Christian life is to be saved.  That language is a way of saying that a person has come into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, has trusted him as his savior and has come to understand and then receive the amazing free gift of life through Jesus.  This results in an understanding that their sin has been forgiven and they have been given a totally new life in Christ.  Eph. 2:4 "But because of His great love for us God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved."  What a wonderful thing it is for a person to be brought into a genuine personal relationship with the living God through Christ.

     However, it seems to me that salvation is actually an initial goal.  It is really the beginning of the greatest adventure of all.  Without this initial goal we will never be able to life in the adventure God has for us.  Salvation through the blood of Christ brings us into a relationship of Christ.  But this is just the beginning.  That is why I call it the initial goal of the Christian life.

     The ultimate goal of this new life is to actually become a carrier of the Presence of God.
Jesus came to the earth and announce the in breaking of a new realm.  A new order was established on the earth.  Mark 1:15 "The time has come, the kingdom of God is at hand.  Change your mind and believe the good news." This new order (the kingdom) not only brought people into a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, it actually open the way for God to come and live his life in people.  God would establish his presence in the hearts of men. The ultimate goal then is to allow God to live His Life fully in us.  The Apostle Paul put it this way in Eph. 3:19 "That you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."


     Just think, God not only brought us into his kingdom through Christ (the initial goal of coming to Christ) but God has then chosen to take up residence in us in order to display his presence for the world to see (the ultimate goal of becoming a carrier of the Presence of God.)  Too many in the church have been content to receive the free gift of salvation but have not gone on to understand that God wants to fill us fully with his supernatural presence through Holy Spirit.

      Maybe its time to go on and allow God to fulfill our destiny and fill us unto overflowing with the life of Holy Spirit.  Then perhaps we will begin to see more of the results of his life in us.  "Now unto him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is a work with us..."  Eph. 3:20

• Coming to Christ is the initial goal.  Receive Christ and all the blessings of life in Him.
• Living in the fullness of the Presence of God is the ultimate goal.  Surrender entirely to His Presence.
• Begin to develop a consciousness of Holy Spirit's life in us and working through us.
• Holy Spirit is the third person of the trinity; He is fully God and lives in our hearts to display the Presence of God.
• Ask him to begin to manifest himself more fully in and through your life.
• He will "baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire."  Matt. 3:11

Become a carrier of the Presence of God and watch how God moves and transforms you and others around you.