One of my favorite poets is the great Ben Harper.  His work is that filled with spirituality and hope, suffering and shame; shame at the inability to display a proper spiritual relationship with God.  In one of his works, “Forgiven” he offers this line:

These eyes weren’t made for crying
This love wasn’t made to waste
These arms weren’t made for battle
But to share your warm embrace

The whole song is behind the idea of the relationship that we share with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  We live our whole lives distracting ourselves from getting close to God.  We throw up our defenses in battle; do anything to keep Him from getting to us.  We live our lives so that we can work everything out ourselves and to forget about God- only remembering Him once every week.  What our life, our very being, is made for is for His work, His love, and His life.  We are in our existence for the glorification of Him.  We waste our love by throwing up our walls; as a result we become weak, pitiful, and poor.  We cry out to our God only to try to engage Him in battle.  What we are made for is getting close with Him, finding that relationship, and glorifying Him through our lives of faith becoming His children (Galatians 3:26-27).  So what is the take home message from Mr. Harper’s words?  Our lives should be for our God.  Dying for us was the most He could do; living for Him is the least we can do.