It's not about you!
"For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, …everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him." Colossians 1:16 (Msg)
"It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power." Job 12:10 (TEV)
You were made for God, not vice versa, and life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose. Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.
Andrei Bitov, a Russian novelist, grew up under an atheistic Communist regime. But God got his attention one dreary day. He recalls, "In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, preempting the future entirely, let alone any meaning. Suddenly, all by itself, a phrase appeared: 'Without God life makes no sense.' Repeating it in astonishment, I rode the phrase up like a moving staircase, got out of the metro and walked into God's light."
You may have felt in the dark about your purpose in life. Congratulations, you're about to walk into the light.
Reflection
When was the last time you asked God what your life is about?
When was the last time you really felt you had your life purpose figured out?
How does that feel?
Where would you recommend a friend go who is struggling to find answers to life's big questions?
