The purpose of life is to be jointly formed to the likeness
of the Lord Jesus, the Immanuel; to regain and to retain the righteousness lost
in the garden of delight because of sin.
And in the same manner as in the primordial order of
creation, wherein man had no contribution to and participation in, the journey
to holiness and perfection is wholly the work of God in a new person and only
because of his mercy and for his glory.
We cannot estrange ourselves from God and claim to be in
pursuit of even a noble purpose that doesn’t oblige us to live and to die like
the Lord Jesus, for it has no precedence in the history of redemption which
culminated in a victorious life in the light of eternity.
Self-determination has no portion in the economy of God.
