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| Sheila Walsh: Why Am I Here? | 5 Minutes With Jesus | July 2, 2026
- So why are you here?
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- God wants you to enjoy
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- Being loved by him, by seeing him in every moment,
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- By worshiping him in every circumstances,
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- The hard circumstances and the joyful times.
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- He's there for all of it.
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- It's a glorious, divine romance.
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- Over the years
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- I've been asked a lot of questions,
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- But one that seemed to pop up more than anything else.
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- Is this what is my purpose?
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- I don't really know.
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- So what do you think the main purpose of your life is?
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- I don't mean your job or your family,
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- But why you are actually on this planet.
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- I wasn't brought up in a liturgical tradition,
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- But i did learn the first line of the westminster shorter
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- Catechism, which was published on november 25th, 1647.
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- And this is what it says.
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- Man's chief end is to glorify god and to enjoy him forever.
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- That was so
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- Outside my understanding of how i was supposed to live my life
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- As a christian.
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- My understanding as a young woman was much more
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- Rules based, you know, like read my bible every day,
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- Pray, be part of a good bible believing church.
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- Find the will of god and don't blow it.
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- Don't get me wrong, all those things are good and true.
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- But i wonder at times if we've missed the whole point
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- Of what it means to be a follower of christ
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- And in relationship with our heavenly father.
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- I grew up familiar with jokes about how the puritans lived
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- Their lives.
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- A famous journalist once wrote that they had the haunting fear
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- That someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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- I don't think that was their fear.
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- I think the fear was that we would be happy
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- For the wrong reasons,
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- That we would live our lives for things in the end,
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- Didn't matter at all.
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- In the spring of 2020,
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- When we were all living in the grip
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- Of a global pandemic, fellowship bible church in nashville
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- Had 21 days of prayer.
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- And on day 20, the question the body of believers was asked
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- Was this what is the chief end of man?
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- Well, i read the article
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- And i found it so helpful and this is what it said.
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- Listen to this.
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- The reason you are alive, living and breathing
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- As you read or hear this, the reason you were born,
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- Shipped in your mother's womb,
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- Had the physical body you have have
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- The strength and weaknesses you have.
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- Have the capabilities and limits you have, belong to the family
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- You belong to.
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- Do the work that you do are in this season of your life.
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- Have the neighbors. you do have the friends.
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- You do have the enemies you do run into the people
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- You do have the challenges, struggles, and pains.
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- You do have, the joys and pleasures.
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- You do have the money you have or lack the money you need.
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- Have the roof over your head, clothes on your back,
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- And everything you own. drive the car.
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- You do possess the assets and resources you do.
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- And in the midst of hard relationships
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- And great relationships, are facing the problems
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- You've never imagined are enjoying
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- The blessings of god like never before.
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- Are living
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- In the midst of the worst global pandemic in modern history.
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- It went on to say, the reason
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- For all of these things, in fact, all things in your life
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- Is that through them you would glorify god.
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- Wow. the good and the bad in our lives are to glorify god.
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- How do we do that?
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- How do you and i, and every day and every circumstance
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- Glorify god?
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- Well, in his letter to the church
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- In corinth, paul made it pretty clear.
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- So whatever you eat or drink or whatever
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- You do, do it all for the glory of god.
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- That's first corinthians chapter ten.
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- But what does that mean?
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- I think the two parts
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- Of the shorter westminster catechism help us understand.
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- Man's chief end is to glorify god and to enjoy him forever.
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- Notice that it says end, not ends.
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- In other words,
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- That's our one job to glorify god and enjoy him.
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- And in loving and enjoying him, we glorify him.
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- And in glorifying him we enjoy him.
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- God's not on our to do list.
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- He's on our very reason for breathing list.
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- As paul wrote to the church
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- In rome, for everything comes from him
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- And exists by his power, and is intended for his glory.
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- All glory to him forever.
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- So why are you here?
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- God wants you to enjoy
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- Being loved by him, by seeing him in every moment,
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- By worshiping him in every circumstances,
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- The hard circumstances and the joyful times.
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- He's there for all of it.
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- It's a glorious, divine romance.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, thank you
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- That you are not just looking for us to tick boxes,
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- To say that we behave in certain ways,
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- But it actually is your heart that we would love you
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- And allow you to love us and enjoy you and through
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- All the circumstances in our life, bring you glory.
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- Holy spirit, help us do that in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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