What is your motivation for living?

What is your motivation for continued existence?

Or, what do you get out of life? What's worth living for? And for that matter, what is worth dying for?

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You're born, and you don't choose to whom or where.

You live given your circumstances in life.

You die, again having no clue when. It could be tonight.

You are judged by God based on what you did in your life.

You can do nothing to live up to God's perfect standards in life. You lie, cheat, steal, lust, hate, disobey, rebel, blaspheme, backtalk, gossip and covet all throughout your life.

God pulls the books and counts each thing you did wrong. Then he counts the things you thought wrong. He adds them up.

He sees that you have broken His law and you deserve Justice, and there is nothing you can say back. If you tell of your good things that you did, he'll just say that that was what you were supposed to do anyway. So why did you break God's law?

You're found Guilty, no questions asked, and nothing you can do about it. You are bound and shackled and sent to eternal prision away from God.

That is the fate of all mankind. There is no hope for humanity in their own good works, because they're ALL wicked, especially the nice ones. They all think bad, lustful, or hateful things all the time.

Look at the other answers to prove my point...

So what use is it? Why live? Simple. For you, to go as long as you can before being sent to eternal hell. Because that is what you deserve along with the rest of us. Many try to take comfort in a lie. So be it. But their vein belief won't matter once they die.

So what hope is there? All have fallen short of what God expects, and God must exercise Justice in order to be good.

But God did something so that you or I or anyone here would not have to end up in eternal punishment. God came down from heaven as a man, in Jesus Christ and lived a perfect life. He didn't lie, cheat, steal, etc. He was blameless before man and God. Then He went to His death on a cross. He was beaten and bruised, tortured, and hung by his hands and feet. Then he died.

His death was an exchange for our wicked lives. He suffered punishment for every time you disobeyed your parents, or lied to someone, or lusted after some person. In His suffering on the cross, when you die, you can be set free from prision, because your punishment for your sins has already been paid. But...

You must repent of your sins. That means turn from them. Hate them, and stop doing them. Would you go out and commit murder again if someone paid your fine with his life, after you committed murder the first time? Apologize for your wickedness and turn from it. This may seem hard, but the consequences after you die is much worse.

Then you must trust in Jesus because you owe Him your entire life for dieing for you. You must give Him your life, and hold on to him in the same way you hold on to a parachute to get you safely to the ground. Jesus is the one and only way for you to get safely to heaven after you die. Anything more or less, you risk falling, and going splat.

So since Jesus had done such a wonderful work for me, I should and do thank Him and love Him for his kindness and mercy. While I was yet a lustful self centered sinner, He died for me anyway, knowing that all the sins that I committed, He would have to suffer God's wrath for. So now, every time I sin, I think about the fact that that was one more beating that Jesus endured. Every time I am unjustly angry, I realize that Jesus suffered the punishment for that sin as well. Knowing that I can do nothing but fall on my face and repent of it, and ask for forgiveness. And ask that He would help me not to stay in that sin.

Now, as for living life, to live is for Christ, and to die is gain, because I am completely forgiven by God, my maker, and I have been adopted into His kingdom. When I die physically, there is no loss, because my treasures are in heaven.

Christ is worth living for and worth dying for. There is nothing else, no vanity, no lust, no religion, no person, that is worthy of serving outside of Christ. What I get out of life, is eternal life, and absolute assurance that I will be in heaven, no matter what I do, because I can do nothing right anyway. I am going to heaven because I am not a good person, but I am a bad person saved by a Good God.

So what is going to happen when you die? Will you be innocent or guilty, or will you be freed by God because you lived a life of repentance and trust in Christ? Get right with God today, because tomorrow may never come.