What’s on your to-do list? Meetings at work? A lunch appointment? Errands to run? Groceries to buy? Phone calls to return? Emails to send?

How about all the tasks that never make it onto your to-do list, but have to be done anyway? Shower. Dress. Cook. Clean. Eat. Commute. Homework (yours or helping a child). Laundry.

Then there are activities we look forward to, things like: time with a friend, watching football, playing a game, going for a walk, sex and going to see a movie.

And we can’t forget the activity that probably consumes more of our week than anything else: sleeping.

If all of that isn’t enough to consume most of our time, we have things like the internet, smart phones and television to distract us and gobble up what remaining discretionary hours we have left.

So in all of this frenzied activity, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s true and what’s best. It’s easy to not even get around to asking the most basic question of all…

Why are we here?

Why are we on this tiny little planet we call Earth as it flies through space at 66,000 miles per hour? What are we doing here?

Are we just an accident? That’s what the evolutionists would have us believe. If they’re right, and I don’t believe they are, then there’s no point in asking any “Why?” questions. If we’re an accident, if we came about by pure chance, then we have no purpose. There’s no point to our existence. Never has been. Never will be.

If, on the other hand, the Bible is true, then there is a God who created the universe and everything in it. Including you. And the reason you are here is to live in friendship with the One who made you.

But it doesn’t do us, or God, any good if we were created to live in friendship with Him, but then go about our lives like it’s not true. How many of us get so wrapped up in our work, our possessions, our relationships, our hobbies and our TV shows that we’ve either forgotten or failed to realize that we were created for friendship with God?

Colossians 1:16-20 says:

For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Have you allowed this life to become so full of other things that it’s keeping you from the very reason you exist?

If so, what are you going to do?