There is a difference when we live with purpose.
A friend taught me to live with purpose. Though born with only two fingers, she pursued tasks that required the use of hands. She did her best with what she had, never giving up when others treated her with less value. Despite adversity, she knew she had purpose.
Purpose is a vital element of living. It is necessary to live beyond the mundane of living.
Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) said: “Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.”
We need to exercise our purpose on a daily basis . . . without a purpose we tend to:
• Dread the day before the day starts.
• Lack energy.
• Become increasingly irritated over things that really don’t matter.
• Decrease time with God and others.
• Be busy doing tasks that don’t matter in the long term.
• Forget to celebrate the gift of life.
• And . . . more.
• Lack energy.
• Become increasingly irritated over things that really don’t matter.
• Decrease time with God and others.
• Be busy doing tasks that don’t matter in the long term.
• Forget to celebrate the gift of life.
• And . . . more.
The thing is . . . God has created each individual to live with purpose. The purpose of our lives comes from God. Solomon wrote about what life really means in the book of Ecclesiastes.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 states:
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
God has implanted purpose into life of every human being. There are specific ways to move to the heart of the matter to determine purpose.
“What do I value? What makes my heart sing?”
1. Intentionally determine to live with purpose today.
2. Delineate how each component defines purpose.
3. Ask what makes your heart sing.
Pray: Let me live with Your purpose for my life.
Learning with you to KICK START the day
. . . intentionally living with the purpose of God,
Pastor Kerrie
(written by Kerrie Palmer © 2009 All Rights Reserved)
kpalmer@hillchurch.com ~Church on the Hill~700 N. Hill Rd.~McMinnville, OR 97128~503.472.8476 ~www.hillchurch.com