You have been called and anointed; you have been chosen for a reason. You have been cherry picked for a specific purpose. Author and pastor, Tony Evans puts it like this: ‘You were designed to know Him, not simply to have a comfortable life. You were not created just to get married, have children, a career, then grow old and enjoy retirement. [Those things are not the main event.] Those are some of life’s benefits; its side dishes, but not its main purpose. The tragedy today is that we have taken life’s benefits and tried to make them our purpose. We are trying to make the side dishes the main course. And the result is that we [are often so dissatisfied]. No wonder. – So if the purpose of life is not marriage, or career success, or happiness, or any of that, what is it? What were we created for? We were created to know and to worship God with an all-consuming passion.

Source: Tony Evans, Time To Get Serious, 1995, Illinois: Crossway Books, p.34