God's Pupose for us.

I used to wrestle with a number of questions like freewill and predestination, God’s ultimate purpose, and my role in that purpose. The short answer is God’s desire is companionship with the bride and Christ outside of time and space. The first step to understanding is the idea that God created both time and space within himself. He then can move freely through space and has seen the end of creation and sees us as a perfect bride. God sees all of creation from beginning to end as a whole. He is not looking at each point in time and saying you are blowing it and you better get your act together. He sees the end and has already made it work out to His good. I think his perspective is he wants to set you free from the possessiveness of sin that demands our emotions and mind. It gives us little time for the spiritual. God wants to share Himself with us but we are preoccupied with things, desires and knowledge. God wants to show us His place outside time and space. He would like us to commune with Him while we are on earth.
I see it as God is panting a mural through time most of the painting is grass and sky. The mural also has focal points that God puts particular effort in making. Everything in the painting is important, but some items take more effort. So if you are a focal point, you may experience more of the cross and more intimacy with Him. The two go together you can’t have more intimacy without Spiritual maturity through the cross. You can’t choose your role only ask Him to prepare your hart and support those who are being crucified. A blade of grass can not decide to be a barn and a barn to be just a blade of grass. It is God who decides and puts that desire in our hart. We must wait on the Lord and give His will a chance to grow in us. It is this that will let us fill fulfilled and give us a purpose filled life.
Christ spoke in parables because his subject matter was so foreign to his audience. But even with parables He spoke not so much for that moment in time but for latter when the Holy Spirit was in them. See not even Christ can explain Spiritual concepts without the Holy Spirit, only tell them what it was not. So we have to get to know the Holy Spirit first. The Bible does not explain any spiritual concepts it only helps the Spirit break through our emotions and logic. The Bible without the Spirit is just a playground for the mind. You can never know how simple His purpose is without an understanding of the Holy Spirit. It is the minds of the ages that have tricked us into thinking that understanding the Spirituals is complex and requires research. It is just not true. It is not in God’s purpose for us to understand everything, but the Spirit has much He wishes to share. We are part of a culturally inbreed reality that is almost two thousand years old. I’m not saying that God is not part of the culture, because like the Jews He interacted with them from time to time even though from time to time they were far off track. It is all working out to his purpose, the creation of a companion which has already been created from God’s perspective.
So our common purpose on earth is to seek His companionship and to encourage the spiritual relationship in others. I hope this encourages you to seek the Holy Spirit.