Life's Missions and Mysteries

 Since the dawn of civilization, all of mankind has sought to fulfill these three missions:

1.     Acceptance: Do I fit in?

2.     Significance: Do I matter?

3.     Security: Am I Safe?

Not only do we strive to fulfill these missions, but we also seek to answer these mysteries?

1.     Where did I come from?

2.     Why am I here?

3.     Where am I going?

Every decision that you make in your life is motivated by a desire to fulfill one of these missions or to answer one of these mysteries. That has huge implications when you consider the people that you run into that don’t know Christ. All of them choose what they choose for the same reasons as you, even though our choices may be different. For instance, you may choose not to go to a party from a desire to be “secure”; to keep yourself from getting drunk, and getting in trouble with the law or your parents, and getting grounded, and maybe dying in a car crash. Another person may choose to go to the same party from a desire to be “accepted”; something that they may not receive at home.

When you can understand the reasons people make decisions: and what mission or mystery they are trying to fulfill, it will greatly help you in ministering to them, and showing them that the only fulfillment for their specific need is found in Christ.

So, the next time you are talking to a friend who is depressed, and feels rejected and alone, and wastes her life away in relationships and drunken parties; don’t just say, ‘you need Jesus’. Instead, minister to her need of “acceptance” by telling her how she is accepted by Christ. That Christ died for her so that she could be with Him forever. That God’s thoughts toward her cannot even be numbered. (psalm 139). This is not just reciting religious clichés that most people roll their eyes to; but instead, it is meeting her specific needs.