The Real Meaning of Life

The main purpose of life is to have a relationship with our Creator. He is our Heavenly Father who loves us unconditionally and all He wants in return is for us to love Him back. The second purpose in life is to be a disciple of His.

When Jesus took the form of Man on this earth, He chose disciples, those He could teach, then sent out to the world to share the message, the message of the true character of God and how we should live so we have a loving and peaceful life on earth. Knowing His disciples wouldn’t live forever, He fully expected the gospel “good news” to continue spreading, and that is why we should all be disciples. As Isaiah says, we should tell everyone of God’s good works and exalt Him.

Trust me, news spreads like wildfire. The residents of Jericho could see the Israelite camp across the Jordan. They could see manna falling from Heaven. They knew the God of Abraham was with them, and that God had done miraculous things, like parting the Red Sea, bringing for water from rocks, raining manna from Heaven. And His works were so great and so reknown, even Rahab conffessed to Joshua and Caleb that the people of Israel had heard of God’s works and were terrified of the Israelites because God was on their side.

Which side do you choose to be on? The side where God protects and cares for you, or the side that has idols and earthly gods who is “terrified” of what God can do to you. Don’t be terrified. God loves you and won’t destroy you. If you perish in the end, it will be because you have separated from God, opened the door, and walked out of His house. And yes, we should spread the “good news”.

Then in the last verse of the chapter, Verse 6, I believe this is another one of Isaiah’s prophesy about the coming of Jesus. “Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!” Of course, he could be talking about God because God is always present, everywhere in spirit, but Jesus also walked “in their midst” when He was teaching. That is what I choose to believe since Isaiah does a lot of prophesying about the birth of the Messiah.

A final note, we talked the other day about God’s name “I am” and the other names Jesus can go by (Wonderful, Counsellor, God of Peace, etc), another name for Him is Yahweh (Yah). It was originally spelled YHWH but because you can’t pronounce that, man added vowels to it. so that is the reference to “YAH”.

In research the origin of the word Yahweh, I came across a Wiki page that I found quite distressing. It describes “Yahweh” as a “Semetic Deity that became the “national God” of Israel-Judah during the Bronze-Iron Age. Actually, “Yahweh” is mentioned throughout the Old Testament, even in the days of Moses, referring to the God of Abraham, not some “national God”, but rather THE One and Only God.

It then talks about “Yahwism” which it declares was a derivative of Canaanite religion, and if I’m reading it right, there was a female co-god named Asherah, and included secondary gods and goddesses such as “Baal, Astarte, Mot, etc” all who had their own prophets and priest.

Am I reading this wrong? Am I misinterpreting something? Am I still in a funk and not comprehending this, or has Satan been busy behind our backs trying to undermine God?

Excuse me, but I think Asherah and Baal were referred to as false gods that the Israelites idolized. They certainly were not associated with God, I am, or YHWH. If I’m missing something, please fill me in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwism

As I read part of the article (I didn’t read it all because of my disgust), I’m thinking, “Has this person not read the Bible?”

It is certainly a topic of future discussion because if people are getting their information from a source like this, then I have to question every other article they have published.

Please read the article for yourselves and tell me if I’m off-kilter.

And God bless us all! Now go out and be disciples!