Why are we here?

Isn't it interesting how easy children can do things that we adults have a hard time accepting? I mean, children can talk to God and know that it is God who is talking to them; however, as adults or even tweens and teens, we tend to question. "Is that me, just my thoughts?"

When I was about 8 years old, I asked God the question that has been asked probably since the beginning of time.

“Why are we here?”

I can remember asking that question so many times that I wondered if God was not going to tell me. But the answer was so important to me that I continued to ask. Then one evening, I heard an answer. It came as a thought, but I did not question it. I knew what I heard was definitely from my Lord.

I remember being so shocked at what I heard that I shouted: “That’s IT? Is that all it is? But, that’s so EASY!” I was so excited I wanted to run over to my best friend’s home and tell her, I wanted to tell everyone. I was so excited I could hardly contain myself. Then I heard that if I told even one person and that one person believed as much as I did at that time, life as we know it, would change forever. Well, this scared me so bad, that I made myself forget what He said out of fear of slipping up and telling someone. I didn’t want to take any chance that the person I told would believe. Being only 8, I imagined that we would be in a world of total darkness, no feeling, hearing, or sight, and this scared me something terrible.

It took about 40 years and a whole lot of praying and thinking to remember what it was I heard and what I heard was we were here “To learn to love one another.”
“That’s IT? Is that all it is? But, that’s so EASY!” It may be easy to a trusting child who is oblivious to the world around her. It may seem simple to accomplish to a person who believes, but the reality is that people have a hard time with loving those who do not deserve to be loved. But in truth, do any of us deserve to be loved?

In John 15:12 Jesus told us: “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”

People have a lot of anger, hate, selfishness, stubbornness, and mean spiritedness in them that the idea of loving everyone seems so impossible. But this is Satan telling us, he is the one that whispers in our ears the anger we feel for someone, “he did you wrong” or the selfishness we feel when money is involved or desires pop up. “why can’t you have it all? You deserve it.” We are tempted all around us to lie, cheat, and to be selfish.
In the 1970’s there was a commercial on television for Mounds and Almond Joy candy bars that asked the question “Why is there two pieces?” and they answered with “So I can share.” Today commercials say things like “let go my Eggo” and tell us we need to hide our cookies from others so we can have them all to ourselves. There are commercials that tell us that lying to our kids is acceptable. When is it ever acceptable to lie to our children and then punish them for lying to us?

Matthew 7:12 
¹² So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.


Can you imagine if we did learn to love each other the way God wants us to? Life as we know it truly would change forever. It would become a world that our Lord has wanted for us from the beginning, a Garden of Eden!