Find Your Purpose Where You Areنموونە

God Is the Starting Place of Your Purpose

What’s my purpose? When we ask this question and silence seems to be the answer, we often go searching. My purpose is out there somewhere, we think, and one day I’ll find it.

We live in a culture that tells us the purpose of life is about us. We must find that one thing we are here to do and then all will be well; we will be whole. But when I look closer at how purpose is used in Scripture, there’s a different story.

Over and over, when purpose is described, it comes from God and belongs to him. What changes everything is when we understand that a meaningful life is not just about finding our purpose but joining God’s.

If we want to be part of God’s purposes today, then we can start by simply loving him, others, and ourselves. That means standing at the kitchen sink washing dishes can be worship. It means that another diaper changed can be an act of sacred service. It means the work project done well can be an offering. It means we don’t have to find purpose only “out there.” It can also be “right here.”

The square of earth you are standing on is the only place in all of history and the entire universe where both you and God are right now. It’s where his purposes and you, a person created by him, come together. This is not small or inconsequential. It is beautiful and powerful. It is holy, meaningful ground.

God, you are the one who is working out his purposes in all of history, eternity, and me. Amen.