Introduction
Tools
God has filled this world with tools which God will use to continue creation in our hearts and through our lives in the world. In a way we can almost think of life being like a video game, where our aim is to run around and gobble up these tools. This might not be the best analogy. All analogies break down somewhere. I think it points us in the right direction, though. Our purpose, then, is to bring these tools, these means of grace, into our lives and to allow God to use them to create love in our hearts and shalom - peace, justice, harmony, balance, health, rightness - in the world. This is what we all want, anyway. If we try to do it on our own, apart from letting God work in and through us, things don’t work out so well. That is when and how things get messed up. We can just be selfish and apply our efforts to satisfying our own desires. This selfish and greedy behavior is destructive. We can also try to do God’s work on our own, by our own effort, using our own strength and resources - all of which are inadequate to achieve our desired end. Our purpose in life is to seek these tools, put them in our lives and then allow God to work in and through us.
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