God's purpose for your life (or at least part of it)!

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guidance in your life?

The more conversations I have with people the more I hear the sentiment, "I wish I knew what God's will for my life was. I wish I knew what he wanted to DO!" I would be completely dishonest if I claimed to never have these feelings because the truth is that I'm human! The fact of the matter is that many people are looking for God to give instructions about where to go and what to do. If we look to Scripture with this intent, we will tend to miss all the fantastic things God tells us about our purpose.

Ephesians 4:1-2 holds one of the many statements God gives us about what our purpose is. It says, "I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love."

That's it. Did you get that?

The life worthy of the calling is to be completely humble and gentle. The title "Christ follower" carries with it a certain expectation. God is calling us to live out his purpose. He is calling us to be his children. The life that is worthy of being considered a son to the creator of the universe is a life that is completely humble, completely gentle, completely patient, and being loving as we bear with one another in life.

The idea here is that faith is a journey. God knows (better than you do) that change takes time. He knows (better than we do) that if he gave you too much right now, today, that you'd never be able to handle it. He knows (better than we do) what his plan for us is. He has given us his plan so that we can know (better than we do now) how to get there.

We start by living for him and trying to become like him right here, where we are. Later in the chapter it says that some people will be called to different things (v. 11 & 12) but these are secondary to what every believer is called to be. We have to figure out what it means to be a believer before we can know what it looks like to be a believer that can literally follow God anywhere.

So get up! Go read God's word and start to discover his will for you. Forget about next year and start asking him to show you the next step. Don't look to the Bible to show you what a month down the road should look like, but instead start using it to show you what today should look like.

Start living out your purpose!