Over the last several weeks at church our paster has been speaking about
"Living ... on Purpose" In Ephesians 2:10 it says "we are God's workmanship
Created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance
for us to do.
look what we enjoy as part of our purpose. Doing the things that we love to
do - something you can get up in the morning and do all day long and not
get tired of it. That is your purpose -something you are made to do.
When you go to work and you dread getting up - you dread driving to work
- your staring at the clock and counting the minutes to time to leave. That
is not your calling. It maybe what pays the bills, but it is not your God given
talent that you perform with out thinking - that you do with joy.
The verse Job 10:8 says: "Your hands shaped me and made me." He knows
what makes you tick. He knows what bring the very best out in you.
Ephesians 1:11 says: "It is in Christ that we find out who we are and what we
are living for ... part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything
and everyone"
Proverbs 9:6 (the message) says "Leave your impoverished confusion and live!
Walk up the street to a life with meaning."
These verses and many more speak about purpose. The bible speaks about
success, it speaks about money, it speaks about our life. He did not make
us to be miserable. Isn't that amazing !! If we are miserable it means we have
choosen that path.
I have always known there is more out there and not just a hum drum life. It has
always pulled at my insides to look deeper - to do more. Come to find out -
I was doing what I enjoyed but did not take it serious.
What about you? What makes you tick? What causes you joy that you do with
out being told to do - that you look up and the time has slipped by because
you are totally enjoying it. What is your purpose ...