humans as engines

Life can be compared to the working of engines.

In many ways, engines work just as we humans do. They consume fuel, make lots of fuss when they work, and they keep doing so until fuel runs out or until they wear themselves out -- whichever happens first.

Is there a purpose in human life? Here we all are, most of us working in various ways towards some kind of goal: either putting dinner on the table tonight or putting one on the table in the distant future. The question is, if you really stand on your toes and try to look further than that -- what is, if there indeed is, the ultimate purpose behind all this locomotion?

Consider two engines, one sitting on a field by itself, making lots of noise while it works, piston going up and down constantly; another engine situates in a train, working the very same way as the previous one. Both engines put in the same amount of work during their lifetimes, but the consequences are greatly different. The first engine spends its lifetime working without a purpose, while the second one does what it is made to do: to follow the design of its maker, accomplishing so much more than what it is capable of doing by itself.

There are some people who say that life has no purpose. There are some who disagree. The rest are searching, keeping their fingers crossed and hoping to prove the first group wrong. The answer can be simply found when we look at ourselves. The Bible in the first of chapter of the first book tells us that we are all made in the image of God: "God created man in his own image...and it was very good." (Genesis 1:27, 31) David sang in Psalm 139: "For you [God] created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; you works are wonderful, I know that full well...All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." (13-16)

Make a choice today to find your original design. It is made by the most awesome, intelligent Creator you and I can ever imagine. Find the purpose behind your being, and go places where you never thought you could go!