READ: GENESIS3:9-21
I used to
think that today’s text was meant entirely for sinners. However, as I studied
the word of God more and more, I found out that, in many cases, what could be
applicable to sinners is equally applicable to saints. I once listened to a
sermon by Myles Monroe. The sermon really blessed me. In his sermon, he said
there were five questions everybody must answer. The five questions are: Who am
I? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? What can I do? Why am I here? He
went to say that “Who I am?” is a question of your identity. “Where
am I coming from?” deals with your heritage. “Where am I going?” deals
with your destiny. “What can I do?” deals with your potentials and; “Why
am I here?” has to do with the purpose for which you were created.
Probably because of the little training I had in advanced Mathematics, each
time I listen to an expert, I always seek to add to whatever the expert has
said. When I reflected on the five questions Myles Munroe said every person
must ask himself or herself, it occurred to me that the questions should be
seven, and not five. Perhaps because seven is a perfect number, the two
questions I added are: “Where am I now?” Monroe’s question,
“Where
am I from?” is talking about the beginning while “Where am I going?” talks
about the end. But when we add the sixth question, “Where am I now?” we
address the question of location and direction, which stems from the fact that
when you talk of where you are going, you should, at regular intervals, check
if you are headed in the right direction. Then the seventh question is “How
much time have I left?” When you talk about of how much time you have
left, you are talking of the divine timetable. This, incidentally, has nothing
to do with age. These are pertinent questions. By the time you have finished
providing answers to these questions, you should have come up with a clear
perception of the purpose of your existence on earth.
MEMORIZE:
GENESIS3:9 –Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?
