Where there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but happy are those who keep the law (Proverbs 29:18, NRSV). Some other translations of the Bible state that where there is no vision, the people perish, blessed are those who keep God’s commandments. Have you ever thought intensely about your purpose in life, besides your education, profession, wealth, relationships, achievements, consolations, and pursuits? What is life all about? Why were we created? Are we fulfilling our purpose or are we wasting our life? What is our true purpose anyway?

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, in paragraph one, two and three explains our purpose, which is to know and love God, as follows:

 I. The life of man – to know and love God.

1) God, infinitely perfect and blessed in Himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make Him share in His own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek Him, to know Him, to love Him with all His strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of His family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent His Son as Redeemer and Saviour. In His Son and through Him, He invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, His adopted children and thus heirs of His blessed life.

2) So that this call should resound throughout the world, Christ sent forth the apostles He had chosen, commissioning them to proclaim the gospel: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.” Strengthened by this mission, the apostles “went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it.”

3) Those who with God’s help have welcomed Christ’s call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world. This treasure, received from the apostles, has been faithfully guarded by their successors. All Christ’s faithful are called to hand it on from generation to generation, by professing the faith, by living it in fraternal sharing, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer.

I pray that you meditate and implement these three paragraphs of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and receive Jesus Christ through baptism. If you are already baptised then accept God’s invitation to share the Good News with others, so they too may be blessed.

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