Happy New Year purpose peeps!

If you’re like the average American it’s highly likely you’ve asked the question “What on Earth Am I Here For?” I first asked this question at the age of 15 and hadn’t really tape into the resource for discovering the answer. So when I felt a lack of response, I contemplated taking my life and putting an end to my questions.

To this day I’m so glad I didn’t because in time I’d finally get it. I read Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life and was met with a seemingly harsh and surprising reality – my life, according to Warren, was not about me. Instead, through reading I came to learn that figuring out the significance of my being “all starts with God.” So as long as I sought meaning from anything outside of Him, something would always be missing.

I needed only look at my past to recognize this statement’s validity. Let me know if it was just me – but every time I sought significance in friends, my friends would change. When I sought it in relationships, no one would date me. When I looked for it in my financial status, I’d blow through everything. But when I finally looked to God and prayed to see myself the way He saw me and to deposit His meaning and design for my life inside me, I experienced a major shift in my thinking. I stopped caring about what people thought about me and walked in the truth of what He says of all those who believe:

“I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name, you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1b

“Since you are precious and honored in my sight and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for you life.” Isaiah 43:4

“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of the darkness and into the marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9

I was designed to know God and make Him known to others and once I made knowing Him my focus I looked up surprisingly surrounded by all the things I’d pursued in place of Him. I met the man who’d eventually become my husband and best friends who would be the bridesmaids in our wedding.

Isaiah 43:10b-11 says “Before me no god was formed nor will there be one after me. I even I am the Lord and apart from me there is no savior.” So while friendships, relationships, jobs, education, traveling (preaching to myself on this one) and more can make for a very exciting lifestyle, they cannot dictate our existence and should simply be looked at as byproducts of a life that’s honoring to God.

As women of purpose we much choose to follow the directive of Matthew 6:33 “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you” and avoid the trap found in Romans 1:25, “They exchanged the trust about God for a lie and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator.”

That is what we’re on Earth for.

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