Monday, February 03, 2014

"God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it" - True Purpose







True Purpose


Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662), one of the greatest French philosophers, said that a servant was usually not revealed a purpose of an instruction to, which his master gave to him.

Accordingly, Pascal contended that the servant carried out what his master ordered to him blindly, and thus sometimes failed in achieving the purpose of the master.

However, Christ Jesus, Pascal continued, told a purpose of his instructions to His followers; yet we have failed in achieving His purpose.

A master usually does not trust his servant 100%.  He can be betrayed by his servant who just obeys him for money or other profits.  There is no reason that his servant respects him fully.  The master has to be prepared for the worst case, so that he has to hide his true intention in using his servant.  The master has to manipulate his servant without love.

There is no 100% love between a master and his servant.  But, Christ Jesus loved His followers 100%, so that He revealed His purpose to them in guiding, persuading, or ordering them to do something.        

But what is the purpose of Christ Jesus?  It is to save His followers.  But Satan does not want the followers of Christ Jesus to be saved.  Accordingly, there is a great battle between Christ Jesus and Satan.  Christ wants to save His followers while Satan tries to destroy them.

This is a key issue.  What purpose doers your master, teacher, boss, leader, or benefactor have in instructing you or advising you?  

Satan might really say that his purpose is to make you his follower in exchange of money and worldly success.  It might not sound good.  So, Satan will not threaten you but try to persuade you that there is nothing that is called Heaven.  He will say to make this world your heaven by earning big money by making others unhappy.  Most of people accept the assertion of Satan.

So, Christ Jesus has to make His followers or Disciples clearly understand that their enemy is Satan and His purpose is to save them from traps of Satan.

But if we have a servant, what shall we do?  Shall we tell him our true purpose of saving him from Satan?  And if our servant has already become a servant of Satan, is it still a wise strategy?


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Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.