It is my firm belief that each and
every one of us has a calling and a purpose.
Your purpose may simply be to exude the Joy of Christ to the world
around you or perhaps God has something else that He desires you to
fulfill. Whatever my purpose or your
purpose we are called by God the creator of all things to
fulfill that role.
It is also my belief that if you
have breath in your body God still has something for you to do. God gives us each and every day that we have; the ultimate question we have to answer is, "Are we striving to fulfill God’s
purpose for our life?" Some people might
say that they don’t know what that purpose is, but I believe that if you are
following God’s will (which we discover and learn more about every time we open
the Bible or come before Him in prayer or listen to Him in silence) then He will use you for His purpose. Sometimes we may have a firm grasp on that
purpose and sometimes we may not, but when we ‘man up’ and take God and His
Word (the Bible) seriously He will use us in ways that we can’t imagine or
understand. In fact the full affect of
our lives on this world may not be revealed to us until God shows us on the
other side of this life.
One of the prayers I often pray is
that my son, Joshua, will grow to be a man of God. I pray that he will seek God’s will
at all times and fully rest upon the truth that God is who He says He is and He
will do what He says He will do. When we
trust God that way and live lives that prove our faith, then we can all have
confidence because the death & resurrection of Jesus promises that one day God
will say to Joshua, you, and me: “Well done good and faithful servant, you are
my child whom I love and I welcome you into my eternal presence.”
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