For many years I asked the question what is my purpose in life. What am I called to do and what is my reason for living? Why was I put on earth? Am I even able to do what it is that I am called to do? People ask, “God if your there why did you make me and what is it you want from me?”
Asking these questions and not having any answer left me in a dark place asking what’s the purpose of living? I soon learned that the loss of purpose led me to loose my will to live. Once while in darkness no hope left i tried to take my life and considered it several times. I was hanging on to a single thread of hope and little by that thread was coming undone? You never no how scary the feeling of hopeless is until you feel it for yourself. Living in despair without purpose was the scariest place I ever had in to be.
I soon learned while in the walls of a psychiatric hospital for the second time that my life was going no where I needed help. I was buying the lie that the only destiny for me was death. Satan was feeding me the lie that it wasn’t going to get better so what is the point in trying. As time went on i learned four key elements to discovering and living out my purpose. These are essential to everyone’s purpose in life.
1. Love( Mathew22:34-40)
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
All though God made us different every are called to love. If you are living a purpose that is focus on yourself its not of God. “Even the Son of man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom,” (Mathew20:28). Serving in love is the umbrella purpose it is what everything hinges on. Every Christian is called to love people that is our general purpose. Who we focus on and the way God has us pour into what makes his General purpose for man our special unique purpose for us as individuals.
“Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT
2. Endure(Gal6:9)
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
God does not want us to give up. God wants us to stay strong and stay true to him. Often out of our greatest weakness Gods greatness is revealed to us. Often he uses our weakness to show us our purpose. Often its the places we never want to go to the least God wants to use the most. CS Lewis Once said, “Hardahips often prepared ordinary people for extraordinary destinies”.
Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope, (Romans5:3-4).
It’s in our trials God makes and molds us into who we are meant to be in order to do what he wants us to do. It’s in the wilderness God develops in us what we need to full fill his divine destiny. Some times its in the places we dont want to be God prepares us to go where he wants us to be our divine destiny.
Everyone of us have a battle to endure. Satans answer is give up and die but God calls us to endure. Many times God uses the seasons we dont want to go through to reveal what it is he wants US to do. It’s because of me weaknesses i was on a quest to get better and stronger.
My quest led me to places I didn’t want to go but it became a Devine ingredient to who I was met to be. Out of my mess God creates a message of redemption and hope. A testimony Of the greatness of God. God doesn’t want us to struggle but sometimes his struggles can be a door way to greatness.
If it wasn’t for my struggles leading me to counseling i would of never found my purpose to help others. I believe my purpose is to give back to others what God has given me. I never could except what God want to give me until realized my need for him. Pastor Paul Tripp puts it this way, “God will take you where you haven’t intended to go in order to produce in you what you couldn’t produce in yourself.”
3. Worship (1Chronicles16:23-31).
We all worship something. Everyone of us were made to worship God for all he is. That is what we were Made for to worship him. To love him and be loved by him. We are made to proclaim his goodness, grace and mercy. Our lives should be a response of gratitude for all he is and what he has done. My purpose to give and serve purpose stems from what was given to me.
Our lives are suppose to be a reflection of the goodness of God. It’s when i worship him his strength in dwells in me empowering me to live our my purpose, (V27).
Our life is suppose to be an offering,(V29). We should give him everyone thing in because he gave us his everything.
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