Purpose

Recently I have been working through helping people find out what they believe their purpose in life is. Rick Warren said one time, “Purpose is what gives you a reason to get up in the morning”. Many of us get up every morning to make some money so we can live comfortably. That in itself is personal motivation or personal purpose. Because we are multi-dimensional human beings, it also means there are a number of other areas of life and purposes to get up for.  

With all the dimensions in life, together, they keep us up and moving. Getting up each morning, can at times, gravitate to one or another. Here are those things I think of, Financial, Fitness, Relationships, Mind and Spiritual. We work on them all; some more than others, but each of them bring us joy, fulfillment and happiness that gives depth, meaning and purpose to life.

I wrote these five in no particular order. That is because we concentrate on each at different times in life and in combination. They all go together to give us a reason for living. Some we spend lots of time on, while others, not so much. Again it is all dependent on where we are in life.

Being who I am in life (at a certain age), I find myself dealing with two of these more than the others. Yes, you guessed them, Faith & Friends. I speculate it comes with the territory but it also comes when I realized that God in Christ, spent most of His life with people and His Father. When we get to Matthew 6 He tells everyone, and that includes you & me, 'not worry about anything'. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop us from being anxious at time. So to this we add something else.

What we need in finding our purpose is to work on all areas of life and maybe even add to the equation what Paul learned and wrote about in Philippians; ‘Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.’

Something to think about.   

Rob