What does that mean? What is your life purpose?
Purpose. It’s a strange word. If you keep staring at it long enough, the spelling starts looking odd. To me, at least.
Purpose. Purpose. Purpose. Saying that seems so strange.
But that’s beside the point. . . .
Purpose started circling my head today (and it’s not unusual), so I’ve started writing in order to share it with you.
You see, I finished my TEEX Cyber Security 101 course today (I need to write a course review soon). Immediately, I started planning for my next course. I am pretty excited because I have just 2 courses and one test remaining to finish up before I transfer to my target college.
So, anyhow. I looked at the calendar. And I began to put things in: travel, coaching call, travel, church programs, travel, church programs, travel. . .
All of a sudden, my spirit sighed within me, “I don’t want to do Microbiology. At all.” I don’t know how that happened, but right away, my heart decided that I didn’t want to do anything.
But. “I have to do something!” I thought. “What am I doing now, anyway?” College. A BS in Elementary Education.
I frowned. “I don’t think I want to do that for the rest of my life.” But I have to do something. But what? “I wonder what made me choose that degree, anyhow.” Then and there, I became so tired of it all; I could have sulked.
My stupid mind cleared up only after I got a drink of water. . .
Purpose.
I’d forgotten the purpose for which I was doing all these things. The things didn’t so matter in and of themselves, but they were leading me to the purpose.
And what was my purpose? I think I must have bouts of amnesia or something. . .
My purpose is to serve God. He has given me a passion and a burden for children, remember? “Oh, yes. . . vaguely.”
Mhmm. But service isn’t the true purpose. There is a greater purpose. “Oh?”
Yup. He loved me. He bought me from the cruel master. He bought me with His own blood. He bought me so that I could be free from the cruel master. He bought me for Himself. Now I am His. “Oh. . . it seems to come back to me now. A little bit. . . ”
Good. Listen, I am His now. He is my master. I don’t have to serve the cruel one anymore. Jesus is my Master now, and will I not love Him? “Oh, yes! Of course!”
Truly. And if I love Him, will I not obey Him? “Sure! He has said that if I love Him, then I am to keep His commandments.”
Then, what is His commandment? “Well. . . there are lots. . . like in Ephesians 4 and 5 and 6 and Colossians. . . ”
No, stop. I didn’t mean that. I did, but in a different way. . . You see, keeping those commandmentsdoes show my love for Him, but that’s not what He really saved me for. Don’t you remember? “Oh, yes! I do — now! He called me into Himself. It was so that I can have fellowship with Him.”
And I begin to smile all at once. . . and the whole world seems different.
Purpose. . .
Life has purpose now it never had before.
There is meaning to each day and even more;
For a joy and peace I can’t explain is mine,
Since I found new life in Christ, my Lord divine.Oh, it is wonderful to be a Christian;
Oh, it is wonderful to be God’s child!
Oh, it is wonderful to have your sins forgiven;
Oh it is wonderful to be redeemed, justified, forever reconciled!— John W. Peterson