Day
13 – purposeful
SELF-REFLECT
with these talents and gifts?
3. In what specific ways this year can you use
your talents and gifts for His purpose?
4. Start each morning with this thought:
"I must be about my Father's business."
A purpose is not created; it is discovered. You already have a
purpose. You have always had a purpose. It
has always been the same purpose. Your purpose
will—for the remainder of your lifetime, at
least—remain the same. –JOHN-ROGER and PETER MCWILLIAMS
Rick Warren's The Purpose-Driven Life¹ struck a chord with
people across the geographic and social spectrum. Millions of copies were sold
to individuals. Thousands of churches launched 40-Day campaigns. Scores
of translations were made available due to worldwide demand. In the United
States the book received national fame when a Georgia woman, held hostage by a
judge-murdering fugitive, used it to convince the man to surrender. From teen
to octogenarian, pauper to prince, benevolent to malevolent, Asian to
Caucasian, the book's theme has rung true: God has a purpose for your life.
This punctuates a point I made in my second book: we humans are
creatures of purpose more than creatures of habit. We have received from God a
sense of purpose, so much so that we consider lack of it—as seen in the
depressed—pathologic and in need of correction. In the mundane and monumental
of our lives, a purposeful drive is omnipresent.
As we continue our gaze inward, we must underscore the importance
of our life’s purpose. We must, like Jesus, keep it forever before us. At age
twelve he turned to his parents and said: "I must be about my Father's
business." His mind was set, his course determined. Nothing, including
death on a cross, would deter or distract him.
So should you and I mimic his tenacity and focus, refusing to
neglect or redirect God’s purpose for us. We, too, must be about our Father's
business.
SELF-REFLECT
1. What talents or gifts has God given you?
2. What do you think God wants you to do with these talents and gifts?
3. In what specific ways this year can you use
your talents and gifts for His purpose?
4. Start each morning with this thought:
"I must be about my Father's business."
¹Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002).
Daily Quotation
John-Roger and Peter
McWilliams, Life 101 (Los Angeles: Prelude Press, 1990), 211.
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