So what would you say would make your life meaningful? You want to leave your hometown; why? What are you ambitions?

There are parts of my life that I don’t like either. They can get in the way of healthy relationships and make me feel pretty bad about myself. I try to hide this dark side of me but I know that other people see it and it impacts the way they look at me. The only thing that has made a difference in my battle with this dark side is Jesus Christ. He takes my life and transforms it into something brand new. “What this means is that those who become followers of Jesus become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has begun!” (a quote from the Bible at 2Corinthians 5:17) I know that Jesus can help you as well with your anger. He will set you free from the way it controls you and put His love in your heart so that you will no longer feel that anger towards people. To find out more about how you can become a follower of Jesus have a look at this website http://powertochange.com/discover/faith/discoverpurpose.

Now you ask, “Does our Creator have an ego?” If by ‘ego’ you mean that He has an insecurity and demands weaker beings to boost His self-esteem by serving Him, than “No, He does not have an ego.” Our Creator needs nothing outside of Himself. Our worship and service does not help God in some way but only acknowledges His complete worthiness. Look at the universe that He has made. Who could even come close to matching that? Look at the way He reveals His character and purposes through the created order, through His inspired Word (the Bible), through His Son Jesus and through His ever-present Spirit who guides our every word and step. Who has ever been so generous with self-disclosure? He absolutely has the self-awareness of His perfection and yet He is willing to sacrifice Himself for His Creation, humanity. That is an ego like none I have ever seen before: perfectly aware, perfectly humble, and perfectly loving. That is our Creator, may His Name be praised forever!

Now to your second question about the importance of humanity. The role of humanity on Earth is unique because of the calling that we have received from our Creator. “Then God said, ‘Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves. They will be masters over all life– the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the livestock, wild animals, and small animals.’ So God created people in his own image; God patterned them after himself; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:26-27) The role that humanity has been given is stewards of Creation; caring for it all so that each part is able to accomplish its purpose to bring glory to God. Unfortunately, in our rebellion against God humanity has taken advantage of Creation for our own purposes and instead of caring for it, we have abused that which God has created. Just as God humbly sacrificed Himself for us, we should have served the needs of Creation. That is how Jesus modeled leadership; His was a servant-leadership, “Jesus told them, ‘In this world the kings and great men order their people around, and yet they are called ‘friends of the people.’ But among you, those who are the greatest should take the lowest rank, and the leader should be like a servant. Normally the master sits at the table and is served by his servants. But not here! For I am your servant.’” (Luke 22:25-27) So my answer is, “Yes, humanity has been placed by God to be over all Creation; even the earthworm, and God has called humanity to follow His example by exercising that leadership by serving.”

Does that answer your questions Dan?

I also don’t want to disagree with your second point but would expand on it by saying both are true: God has chosen those who will follow Him and who He will save, but they have also chosen to be separate from God. The verses that you quote are good ones and help us understand the way that God has chosen us before the foundation of the world. But there are other verses that talk about people hardening their hearts and turning their back on God. Paul, quoting Isaiah, said, “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive. For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.” (Acts 28:26-27) The active voice of these verses shows that it is the unregenerate heart who chooses to close their eyes and not understand. In Romans 2:5 Paul puts the blame for eternal punishment on the unrepentant, stubborn heart. Peter talks about false prophets who, “forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;” (2Peter 2:15) Again the responsibility of the wrong doing is placed squarely on the offender.

The part we will never understand here in this world is how both can be true at the same time: God’s sovereign choosing us and our human responsibility for choosing Him. I think H.A. Ironside described it well when he postulated that on the gates of heaven we will read going in “Whosoever will, let him come” (Revelation 22:17) but when we enter and turn around, on the inside of the gates is inscribed “Chosen…in Him before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4) If we emphasize one at the expense of the other we miss God’s plan of salvation.