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# Do you have a ‘why’?
## ‘I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.’ Romans 8:18 NIV
When Viktor Frankl was sent to Auschwitz, he’d been researching a book on finding life’s meaning. But when his clothes were suddenly taken from him, including the manuscript he’d hidden in his coat lining, he questioned whether his life had real meaning at all. Then something happened: the Nazis gave him the rags of an inmate who’d just been sent to the gas chamber and Frankl found in the pocket a page containing a Jewish prayer (from Deuteronomy 6:4-5): ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one God. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.’ ‘How should I interpret such a coincidence?’ he asked himself, ‘Other than to live my thoughts instead of merely putting them on paper?’ Later he wrote, ‘Nothing in the world will so effectively help you to survive as the knowledge that there is a purpose to your life. He who has a ‘why’ to live for, can bear almost any ‘how.’ Charles Dickens was lame. So was Handel. Homer was blind. Plato was a hunchback. Sir Walter Scott was paralysed. Paul spent all but seven years of his ministry in prison. What gave each of these people the stamina to overcome their circumstances? Purpose! Each of them had a dream, fuelled by a fire within that could not be extinguished. They had a ‘why’ that was bigger than every ‘how’. Do you?
#### Prayer Point:
Lord, You are the One who gives meaning to my life. We each have a part to play in Your bigger story. Please help me to fulfil my part. Thank You, Lord, for giving me purpose and a reason for living. Amen.
Acknowledgements: Frankl, Viktor Emil, Man’s Search For Meaning (Beacon Press, 2006).
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