Dear,
I have never reflected on Christmas the way I am reflecting this year. In the past thirty-three years of my stay on this earth, this season has given me a depth of perspective I did not anticipate. It has slowed me down. It has made me think. It has forced me inward.
As humans, one of our greatest pursuits is clarity of purpose. All the whys that live quietly in our minds. Why are we here? Why does life test us the way it does? Why were we born now and not before or after? Why this family? Why this path? These are not occasional thoughts. They are questions we all carry, whether we admit it or not.
Every one of these questions points to the same pursuit. The desire for clarity of purpose.
A Moment of Reflection
Early this morning, while I was alone in deep meditation and introspection, these thoughts surfaced again. Not as noise, but as reminders. And that reflection became my message.
Chasing clarity of purpose without Jesus Christ is like looking for your shadow in the dark. You may move. You may search. But without light, nothing is revealed.
The truth is that clarity is not first a destination. It is a person. Scripture does not say Jesus shows the way. It says He is the way.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
John 14 v 6
Purpose Traced to Its Source
Purpose, by its very nature, must be traced back to the source of existence. Anything else is an assumption. If Christ is the origin of all things, then He cannot be excluded from the explanation of why we exist.
“All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
John 1 v 3
Many people search for identity through career, relationships, achievement, pain, or self-discovery. Yet Scripture is clear about where true identity is found.
“In Him we live and move and have our being.”
Acts 17 v 28
Remove Christ, and meaning becomes borrowed. Temporary. Unstable. This is why clarity feels short lived when Jesus is absent. Answers come, but they do not stay. Direction appears, but it keeps shifting.
Alignment Before Action
Purpose is not sustained by motivation. It is sustained by alignment.
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2 v 10
Notice the order. We are created in Christ first. Purpose follows.
Christmas
Christmas, therefore, is not merely a celebration of birth. It is the moment clarity entered humanity.
“The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.”
John 1 v 9
Light does not argue with darkness. It reveals. And when light appears, confusion loses its authority.
A Quiet Encouragement
So this is my quiet encouragement to anyone reading this. If you are genuinely searching for meaning. If the questions keep returning. If success has not answered them. If introspection has not silenced them. Then maybe the search itself is not the problem. Maybe the starting point is.
“In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
Colossians 2 v 3
Not some. All.
As Christians, and even for those who are still seeking, clarity of purpose and true identity begin when Christ becomes the primary focus.
This is not merely a religious concept but rather the fundamental basis.
Clarity does not come from looking further outward. It comes by returning to the source.
And that source is Jesus Christ.
Eze Maximus Chukwujindu
