What is your purpose?

Though we are created to be loved and to love, we only control whether or not we love. God loves us, but we don’t control if others love us. If others love us, then it’s easier for us to love. If others don’t love us, then it’s harder for us to love. But loved or not, our purpose is fulfilled in loving not being loved. Romans 12:1-5 “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.”