People ask me, ‘What is the purpose of life?’ And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act — the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practise on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn’t going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: either you are in one now, you’re just coming out of one, or you’re getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that’s not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character.
No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.
God didn’t put you on earth just to fulfil a to-do list. He’s more interested in what you are than what you do. That’s why we’re called human beings, not human doings
— Rick Warren
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