Finding Your Purpose (in Life)

First thing I want us TO be conscious of is that, we can never be in control when it comes to life’s most crucial elements.

Finding our purpose in life is not a day, week, month, or a year job. It’s not the light bulb that just suddenly turns on when you see something. It’s a constant journey. Sometimes you will fall, sometimes you will bend or but rest assured you will keep moving no matter the pace.

 “So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them”.  (Genesis 1:27)

To know your purpose, is to know your history, your heritage. When you have not yet discovered your heritage, you’ll be lurking around empty nothings. You’ll look for many ways to fill the voids in jobs, partying, friends,  boyfriends, girlfriends and so on.

You wouldn’t buy an iPhone now and then go to a random phone store asking what is wrong with it, there’s just so little they can do as they are not the manufacturer. So, when searching for your purpose, you do not search for it in things God has created, you go directly to the manufacturer (God). I find It quite alarming that our generation feel that it is ‘silly or too spiritual’ to ask God things concerning our lives.

In every phone boxes, the manufacturers ensure that there is a phone booklet in the box for customers who purchase. WHY?

Answer: To learn how to work through their phone, getting help where/ when needed.

Before this idea came to fruition, there must have been many discussions with phone manufacturer, creative manager etc (I don’t know how these things work!) but my point is ‘COMMUNICATION’ which springs up ideas individually and during meeting they share. The is the same with finding your purpose, you need to talk about your urges, dreams, passion everything with God. Nobody’s saying you cannot have your own mind, but does it align with God’s plans for you?

You cannot find this on your own, you are not YOUR OWN, You belong to God and the sooner you realise this the better.

We all live in a world where most people don’t even know who they are, the world itself is lost. This is why God’s purpose for us is to ‘ Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added to you’.

It is not your job to find your purpose, it is the will of God however that you walk with in, in that he will showcase your purpose. From the moment we were born God has initiated his greatness into us

God loves us, he wants us to come to him, he wants us to ask because his thoughts for us are ‘GOOD’. God made us, he knows what’s best for us, not our parents, our friends, not even our tiny little brains.

To find your purpose, you need to partner up with Christ. It is mandatory that we develop that relationship with God, where we can differentiate and separate our urges versus God’s given instincts. It is not every opportunity that comes your way that you must take. Just because something feels natural doesn’t mean it is right for you. We need to keep asking, and be okay with the answers we are left with because truth be told Only God knows what’s best for us.

You must position yourself in Christ meaning that your ‘attitude and character’ is changed and renewed daily. When you begin to see yourself how God sees you, you’ll begin to attract the things he wants for you, you’ll begin to develop characters that will lead you to finding your purpose.

Here are three things I want us to reflect on concerning Our purpose

1.      OBEDIENCE –

God is always there for us when we need him, even when we do not deserve that Grace. Abraham and Saul both had a relationship with God, but the difference is that Abraham was obedient and Saul was not. Are you prepared to leave everything behind and walk faithfully and boldly to the unknown?

2.      AGREEMENT

Are you willing to follow God’s direction for your life, or you think you know better than the manufacturer himself? It’s quite sad that we do not argue about how things we use should be made cause funny enough, we have no direct access to the manufacturers but here we have the MANUFACTURER of all THINGS! And we tell him how he should run the life he gave us.

3.      POSITIONING

The question we all squeeze our faces over. Where are you with God? God will not reveal his plans for you, if you are not developed. It’s not because he doesn’t love or care for you, it’s more of a protection. You wouldn’t apply for college or university without the right grades or experiences would you?

So the question is where are you with Christ?. I know you go to church everyday, you sing, you dance, you pay your tithes but WHO ARE YOU IN CHRIST?, who are you when nobody is watching? Are you making the conscious effort everyday to know Christ more or you just want him to help you in finding your purpose?

Be Encouraged.

Grace