What is your purpose? To live a complete and full life everyone needs to eat and sleep. But usually, it’s not until a person eats and sleeps their way into their thirties, forties, and fifties that they begin to question the reason for their existence. It’s usually not until a person enters their fifties and sixties that they start to look towards the end and begin to ask the question, what is my purpose? Why am I here? The cool thing is that the sooner you answer this question, the sooner you can live a complete and fulfilled life.
When discovering your purpose, it’s important to determine where or how you want your life to end. But it’s more important to understand that you are a means to an end not the end. Nothing that has been created has been created to serve itself but rather to serve a purpose outside of itself. But you’ll first have to get past, what’s in it for me? Then ask yourself, who am I here for? You’re not here to serve yourself; you’re here to serve others.
BIBLE READING:
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges he took the humble position of a servant… - Philippians 2: 5-7 NLT
THINK ABOUT IT:
As we close these 21 days of prayer and fasting I would encourage you to continue humbling yourself and seeking God’s face. But I would also ask you to meditate on the following question and perhaps what might be the most important questions in your life and it’s not, what is my purpose? But rather who am I here to serve? Who is my purpose?
PRAY:
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for these 21 days of prayer, fasting, and communion with you. I thank you for your word and I thank you for your love, mercy and grace. I pray dear God for change. I want to become the person you have destined that I should be. I want to be humble yet do extraordinary things. I want to have the same attitude that Jesus had, the attitude of a servant. I know my purpose in this world. My purpose is a who. Help me to become the kind of servant Jesus was. I want to serve a purpose that is greater than my wants, my desires, my needs, and myself. I want to cry over the things you cry about, love those things that you love, and care about the same things that you care about. I want to be a reflection of Jesus to the world. Thank you Jesus, my living and true example. I can never thank you enough for your sacrifice on the cross but I can strive to be just like you, a humble servant. Thank you God for the honor and privilege of serving you. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.