2) The Purpose of Our Life

What is the utmost purpose of life? What is the utmost purpose of the fallen man? \I think that "So faith, hope, and love abide; but the greatest of these is love," is a very good verse indeed.

To what do we set our purpose of life? We have to set our purpose not to an individual purpose, or to a familial purpose, or to a group purpose, or to a national purpose, or to a global purpose, or to a purpose for heaven and earth, but to the joint purpose of God and man centering on God.

Then, which of these purposes will remain to the last? The individual purpose fades away, the familial purpose fades, the global purpose fades, but if there is any which will remain to the end, that is the purpose pursued by God and man jointly.

Where would be the terminal point, the safe arrival of your mind? Even if one finds God, and occupies Him, things would not rest there. Then, where would be the final destiny of one's mind? It would be the place where one occupies God and His love. Therefore, it will be all in vain if one cannot occupy God's love.

What will be the final goal of one's life? It is not just to meet the one who is the center of heaven centering on God but to live with him.

Meeting him, living with him is one thing; but the real problem is where you meet him, where you live with him. The place you want to meet him and you want to live with him might be the center, but that is where God's love dwells.

Therefore, the utmost purpose towards which the human heart heads is to be united with God, to follow the heavenly path, to occupy God's love and to make it one's own.

What is the final destiny a person seeks to attain? It is to be an object of love of the Supreme Being. It is to know that the Supreme Being is not only God but also our Father.