I recently saw the above pair of questions posted on a website called “Quora”. Quora describes itself as “a social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market”.

There are many responses posted on the site. Responses (and some excerpts of responses) include:
* I'm living for me. The evidence that I am true is that I exist.
* Nothing. There’s nothing I live for. One may argue that I live for other people, my family, my friends, but if I died I would ultimately be forgotten. One may argue that I live for art, and while it’s true that I feel alive when I create, my voice gets drowned in an ocean of other voices and will probably never be heard. One may argue that I live for love, but the only time I allowed myself to trust, I was betrayed and I never dared to let anyone come close to me since. The fact that I don’t want to die makes me think that there’s something I live for. Even if I don’t know what it is.
* Because living is worth a try. I was born, and so I will live until I die. I don't see how it is complicated or mysterious in any way.
* As an atheist, I don't believe I was made by sentient beings who had a purpose in mind for me. Unless we're talking about my parents. If they had a purpose for me, they never told me, and if they had told me, I wouldn't have cared. I suppose we could also say I'm "for" whatever purpose I've set for myself. In which case I'm for nothing, since I haven't set any purpose for myself. There are things I love to do; things I try to avoid doing; ways I try to help people; things I think of as my responsibilities; things I'd like to experience; and things I want to achieve. But I have no grand purpose in mind for myself.
* I am living because a few billion cells were enjoined to be me for a while. I didn't really have a say in the matter. I'll stop when it comes time for them to do something else.

People tended to respond to these questions with more thoughtful responses than I would have expected. My observations of people tell me that the correct responses for many could be simply Money or Power or Prestige. More lofty single-word responses for some could be Family or Friends or Society.

But these are all fleeting. Years ago I asked our former minister, Pastor Dan Krumrei, the question “Why do we exist?”. His response was “To live out the choices that God gives us.” I liked that one.

There could be many “correct” Christian responses but all should comply with scripture in the Holy Bible. All thoughts we have should direct us to follow the 10 Commandments and Jesus' response to the question of the most important commandment in Mark 12 “30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 31 The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”

I am so happy that people have been in my life that have led me to a Christian faith and have helped that become a solid faith. I’m sure many of you have the same feelings. A major purpose we should all have is to bring others to a worthy answer to the question “What are you living for?”. Are we all doing our best to help others come up with a satisfactory answer to this?

Yours with Christ,
N.D. Harrison