We Were Put On Earth To Give God Glory

I love watching the blind auctions for "The Voice." The judges don't see what you look like. They only judge based on what they heard. Sometimes one chair will turn around and other times all four will turn around. After a brief introduction of the performer, the judges would start fighting over who this singer, if more than one judge turned around, should choose to be their coach.

This season, Alicia Keys has told a few of the performers that they were here on earth to be make music and sing. That caught my attention because many people want to know their purpose in life. In the late 1990's, church came up with purpose statements on why they existed and a decade later, Rick Warren released The Purpose Driven Life, which does say it is not about us. Warren is right.

Why are we put here in this earth? The Bible says, "Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made" (Isaiah 43:7). We are made to give God glory. God did not have to create us. He was not lonely. He had perfect fellowship in the Godhead.

In his book, The Sovereignty of God, A.W. Pink wrote:

God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure; for He “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Eph 1:11). That He did create was simply for His manifestative glory.

We are to give God glory in everything. "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31). That does include singing, dancing, working as a teacher, stay-at-home mom, playing in athletics, etc. We are give glory to our Father who created us. That is what we were put on this earth.