Pursue Your Purpose
Monday, August 19, 2019
There are times when I feel lost. There are times when I feel lonely. There are times when I feel as though I have
lost all of the depth to me, everything that made me, me. It’s difficult to figure out how that is even
possible. How do I just lose everything
that seemingly makes me the person I am meant to be? Maybe it was when I stopped taking the time
to sit, to write, to think through life.
Maybe it was when I went to people with my issues before I even thought
those problems out with myself. Maybe it
was when I stopped taking the time to pray.
To trust Jesus. To talk to Him
and allow Him to take control. Maybe it
happened when I stopped pursuing the very thing that gave me purpose. That made me, me.
So. Purpose.
What is it? What is my purpose
and how do I pursue it? I’ll tell you my
purpose: to walk the path the Lord has set before me. To walk in His truth and His unwavering
love. To love the unlovable, the way He
loved. To serve with a kind and giving
heart the way He served so selflessly and lovingly. To share all of the love and joy He fills me
with daily, to all I know so that they may seek Him too. To die to my flesh over and over and over
again, every single day. To take up my cross and follow in His footsteps. That is my purpose. That is what drives me. That is where I find myself, in the arms of
the Savior who will never change, will never give up on me and will never ever
leave me. When I pursue that, everything
that makes me who I am, all of the depth in me returns, and I am made whole. I am completed.
How do I pursue my
purpose? I pray. I love.
I walk the path the Lord gave me the map to and I follow it. Is it easy to go astray? Absolutely.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to stray from the path and succumb to all of
the lies the world throws our way, rather than to stay confident in His truth and the purpose He has planted in us?
Absolutely. Because going through trials
and temptations and experiencing the struggle and difficulty it takes to stay
true to a God of a world where so many millions and millions of people despise Him is hard. It’s disheartening and after a
while you just want to give up. But
guess what? Jesus won’t give up on
you. He bled and died for you because He
believes in you and by trusting in Him and in His strength and power you will
make it. Let’s not give up on Him. It won’t be easy. But it will be worth
it.
Everything has purpose. Everyone has purpose. Every star that burns in the night sky, every
wave that brushes the seashore, every laugh that floods our ears, every tear
that streaks our face and every human being that has ever existed has a purpose
they could never have dreamed of. I only
hope we never cease to remember. Pursue
your purpose. This is what we must do. Pursue our purpose. Pursue our purpose with a passion and hold
onto the Creator who put that purpose in us.
He will never disappoint.
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