Your Purpose Doesn’t Start with You

“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” Bertrand Russell, Atheist

So many times when we want to describe the purpose for our lives the first thing we want to do in this very consumer driven Western World is talk about all the things we can accumulate.  We want a bigger house, a better car, a boat (totally useless in the Desert Southwest), and accumulation of more and more stuff.  Remember when closets used to be hooks on our walls.  Now we have closets the size of whole rooms and they still don’t accommodate all of our stuff.  That’s not what purpose is all about.

Purpose is about something bigger than you are.  Your life is far bigger than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness.  If you want to know why God placed you on this planet you must begin with God.  Even the atheist’s believe that.

The search for significance has puzzled people for many years, thousands in fact.  The reason is we begin at the wrong point.  We begin with ourselves.  We ask ourselves what makes us happy, what do we want to be.  Focusing on ourselves will never bring us to our life’s purpose.   The search for stuff will always leave us unfulfilled.  We get the stuff and it makes us happy for a while, then we have to buy more stuff to make us happy again.  It’s a vicious cycle that never ends. 

“We were made my God and until we understand that, life will never make sense.”  Rich Warren  I do love people like Tony Robins and others that have sacrificed their lives to help others in the “self-help” industries.  However, we don’t need self-help we need self sacrifice. 

How can you know that you are living God’s will for your life?

How do we know if we are living God’s will for our life?  That can be difficult to figure out.  One thing that I know is that it doesn’t start with the focus on ourselves, it starts with self sacrifice.  If the thing that you have in your heart to do has to do with helping others in some way then it’s probably the one thing that God wants you to do.  But if you want to really know what your purpose or destiny is the best thing that you can do is ask Him.  He will tell you why He put you here.  I don’t think that He wishes you to remain in darkness about what he wants you to do.  Remember, “All things were created through Him and for Him.”  (Col 1:16)  If you want to know why you were created, go to the maker.

If you would like help knowing why you were put on this earth I would love to talk to you about it.  Go to www.incredibletransformation.com give me your information and we can talk more.