“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;” (1 Peter 2:9).
One of the things you must endeavor to know is God’s divine purpose for your life. You were born for a purpose. You are not an accident, You are a product of divine wisdom, knowledge and understanding. The Almighty God does nothing arbitrarily. In everything He does, He is known for clear-cut purposes. He knows where He is heading before He sets out on any course. Even for those things or people you think are bad, there is a purpose they serve in the circle of life. Each purpose of God is known to Him from the beginning. This is revealed in Acts 15:18: “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.”
God’s purposes are known to Him. This is so comforting for us to know. We have issues with God and with ourselves because we don’t know what He knows about us. Another reason we have issues is that we don’t make out enough time to seek His purpose for our lives. Since the fall of man, an inclination towards self-rule has been a part of every natural man. We rely on our human assessment and understanding of ourselves to determine what we think should be the purpose of our existence.
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Challenges To Discovering Your Purpose
Not seeking God’s purpose and self-reliance are traits that hinder man from the glorious purpose for which God created him. This was not the case with Joseph; he knew he was not going to end up being the chief of slaves in Potiphar’s house; hence he refused to be the “favorite” of Potipher’s wife (Genesis 39:8-9). Later on in life, when his brethren began to exercise fears of retaliation, Joseph revealed his knowledge of the purpose of God for his life by saying:
“… Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.” Genesis 50:19-20.
Everyone in the world came for a purpose. You need to discover your divine purpose for life. From what God told Jeremiah, we see that His purpose for us is not an after-thought. He had thought out His purpose for each of us before ever creating us. It also tells us that even though He has all power, wisdom, knowledge and understanding doing anything, He does nothing without a purpose. There is a purpose attached to your life; strive to discover it from today.
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