Day 6 - Taking It to Our Knees - Discovering My Purpose

Welcome to Day Six of the devotional series taken from the book, “Taking It to Our Knees – Rigorous Prayers for Life’s Greatest Challenges.”

Today’s Theme is “Discovering My Purpose.”

 

The Quote for Today Is This:

“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails..”

• Proverbs 19:21

 

Purpose.  Without it, life has no meaning.  Without it, life is empty.  We can liberally pour all kinds of questionable things into our lives every day of our lives, but without purpose the emptiness remains despite the pouring.  In fact, pour in the wrong stuff and the emptiness becomes more empty.

We are all created with an innate need for purpose that will not relent.  A sense that we matter.  A belief that in the chaos of life we have a purpose in the chaos.  A conviction that we are here because to ‘not’ be here is an unacceptable option.  A deep sense that we were created because not to be created was too great a mistake.

Many can argue that life is random and happenstance.  Yet, that argument itself is neither random nor happenstance, which turns that argument back on itself.  The reality is that the core needs of our shared humanity don’t resonate with such a perspective.  Such an argument makes our existence accidental.  And such randomness strips us of any value, or purpose, or calling, or whatever it is that we might choose to call it.

We need a purpose.  Not just something that we do, but something that we were created to do.  Not a reason that we create for our existence, but the reason for which we were created.  We need something that identifies who we are, the place that we are to occupy during this time in history into which we’ve been both called and inserted, and the impact that we’re supposed to have while doing all of that.

Purpose is the great “why” as to our existence.  It’s the pristine goal, our truest north, our destination in a world that is always changing its destination based on preference, current trends, and flawed ideologies.  You have a purpose that is uniquely yours.  Yours for the taking.  Yours for the living.

 

Prayer

Dear God:

I wander…way too much.  I live thinking that just living is the purpose of it all.  What I’ve missed is that living is the thing that I do while I’m pursuing my purpose.  My purpose makes living purposeful.  Dear God, I don’t know that I know what my purpose is, at least with any kind of specificity.  However, You do.

I know that You created me “for such a time as this.”  And I know that I came into all of this as a marvelously complete package.  Dear God, You are wildly ingenious.  And I know You were brilliant enough to place within me everything that I need to be in order to do everything that You created me to do.  I am complete, and I claim that right now.

I confess to You that I don’t see all of that, and most times I don’t believe it either.  But You know that I want to believe it.  Yet more than that, I want to act on it.  I don’t want to miss anything that You’ve created me to be, or anything that You created me to do.  I want to be the sum total of everything that I am, and everything that I am purposed to do.  So, help me find my purpose, help me to fall in love with it, and then help me to pursue it for the rest of my life.

I pray all of this in Jesus’ Name.  Amen.

 

Here’s a thought to carry with you today:

“Right now I am making the choice to live out this day choosing to be intentional about not being unintentional.”

• Craig D. Lounsbrough

 

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