Existing for Existence.

Do I live to exist or exist to live? I would say most people live to exist. We work, we eat, we drink, we breathe for the sake our existence. Without these things we simply couldn't exist. But then what? More work, more eating, more drinking...? What is the purpose of our existence? Is it just to exist or is there something more?

That's a lot of questions that I won't attempt to answer in completion, but am thinking about. It's this paragraph from the Life Study of Exodus, written by Witness Lee...

For us to live for Christ, we need to exist. Without our human existence we cannot live Christ. But today those in the fallen world care for nothing but their existence; they do not care for the purpose of their existence. To exist is one thing, but to exist for the divine purpose is another thing. The purpose ordained by God for our existence is to live Christ, to live God out, and to have God's testimony. But the people of this world have only their existence; they have no purpose. Eventually they make their existence itself the purpose of their existence. They know nothing but existence. Satan picks up the existence of human beings or of human living and uses this existence to usurp people so that today the whole world cares only for existence, not for God's purpose in existence.

Wow! To say that we exist for our existence is quite enlightening, rather deep and pretty bold. Not sure how to respond, except that I would like to declare that I don't want to exist just for existence sake, but to exist for the divine purpose. How about you?