A Lutheran does 40 Days of Purpose

The first four words are the best four words ever written in a book like this, "It’s not about you." This is the truth that will set us free; it’s all about God.

Everything in this first chapter rings true. The radical expression sometimes forces us to realize that we hedge our commitment to God. His insistence that the meaning and purpose of life comes only from revelation is the chief example. A host of theologians, especially Thomas Aquinas, felt that the combination of reason and revelation were the happy combination used by God. Here we are forced to put revelation ahead of reason and see reason as the tool that allows us to understand God’s word. God chooses to act and chooses to reveal, this is the ultimate truth about our existence, our meaning and purpose is what God says it is. This would be terribly enslaving if the interpretation was left to an elite. Christians hear God’s voice directly through scripture interpreted by Jesus whom we meet there, in the church, and in our lives. Whomever among us has gifts for proclaiming, interpreting, or teaching scripture can only serve us in our individual desire to listen to God. This is the great protestant principle of the priesthood of all believers and the power of one person with scripture standing against the powers of the world.

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