What
is My Purpose in Life?
You might have asked yourself this question,
“what is my purpose in life?” Many people have asked the same
question too especially those who feel lost, and those who believe there should
be more to life than materialism.
To live a meaningful life, you must discover
your purpose. That is the major reason why God sent you into this world. The
singular assignment you must accomplish to be fulfilled in your pursuits in
life.
God’s Role in Finding Your Purpose
Many people don’t know what they are ordained
to do in life. They are spending time watching others break records and make
history while life seems to pass before them like a dream. They spend countless
hours on social media following others and helping them to build their
ambitions.
This is a waste of life and living without
sense of purpose. Anyone living like that cannot get any good thing out of
life. You need to commit yourself to find your purpose and start building on
it.
You would need God for that. The one who
created you has a specific reason for doing so. It is when you discover this
and work towards achieving it that you make meaning out of life. Success in
life does not depend upon your educational achievements. Whether you are a high
school graduate or a doctorate holder. The key to your success is God.
The challenges we face in life are much. If
you take a look at life generally, you’ll find that we fight battles on daily
basis. The Bible correctly put this as “sufficient for a day is the evil
thereof.” Matthew 6:34. There are evils we have to face daily. They make
achieving something out of life difficult or near impossible to do. God can
help us overcome our challenges, Jesus said “in this world, we shall have
tribulation, but cheer up, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33.
The madman of Gadarene was living a
purposeless life until he encountered Christ. Matthew 8:28-34. He received
deliverance from the legion of demons in him and became an evangelist
thereafter. Peter was a fisherman; poor and frustrated until he met Christ. He
received a new life and got commissioned into the real “fishing” God
ordained him for.
God had ordained you for something. You must
align your lifelong journey to this so that you will not only discover it but
achieve it also. Many people spend their lives pursuing the wrong things. They
jeopardize their mental health by going after what they are not created for.
God will not support or help you if you do things contrary to His will. Today
people don’t bother about seeking the face of God concerning their ambitions.
The main reason why many fail in realizing their ambitions.
What You Must Know to Find God’s Purpose For
Your Life
You must find your passion or your calling.
You must answer the question, “What is it that I’m meant to do with my life?”
When your purpose and vision for your life align, you will see how much bigger
your life is when you come face-to-face with it. This is what you can do to lay
the right foundation for your future. Commit the whole of your time, energy,
and resources to this because what you do with your energy, enthusiasm, your
love is the catalyst to your highest potential.
To know your purpose, you have to understand
and grasp it. What drives you? What makes you feel you need to do the thing
that brings you the greatest happiness and fulfillment? People say that
“you are the master of your destiny.” That is true to a point because
only you can determine what becomes of your life. God will only agree with you
concerning what you have chosen for yourself. He will not intrude into your
privacy, nor force His plan upon you.
When you begin to discover how you can live
your life with peace and contentment, it becomes harder and harder for you to
follow others. You will discover that most of the ideas and ways of life that
many are celebrating are not for you. This is when your life starts to have a
real direction. The real person that God made you be will start manifesting.
To further help your ambition of discovering
God’s purpose for your life you should know the gifts that God has given to
you. The Bible says “The gift of a man will make way for him.” Your
gift is an indication of what God ordained for your life. He gives you all that
you need to achieve His purpose, that is why you are having a gift that others
do not have.
Many people despise their gifts because they
don’t believe in them. They would rather have other people’s gifts, especially
those of celebrities and successful people. You should know that the thought of
God towards you is for good and not for evil. He can only give you the best.
What you have is what you need. Joseph in the
Bible had only one gift – interpreting dreams. That was enough to take him to
the throne. The God who knows all about your life had given you what you need,
your job is to discover it and start to use it.
Some people do not know the gift they have.
Anything you do without stress, or what you have that others do not have, can
be a gift. Some people have multiple gifts. Choosing one among them to fulfill
the purpose of God may be an issue. In all, you would have to pray for God to
direct you to the one you must use. If you don’t know your gift, you should
pray also, God can open your eyes and make you see it.
Never be like the servant that was given one
talent in the Bible. He buried it because he believed he deserved more than
that. He was looking at what was given to others, not realizing that each of
them was given according to their abilities. He regretted his action when he
was called upon to give account.