How to Discover Your Purpose

So have you ever said something and in return, someone says to you, “It’s so funny you should say that because…”

Whether you know it or not, that’s something divine. It wasn’t planned, at least not by you, and usually you have no perception of just how relative what you’re saying really is-if that makes any sense. Every human being, all 6.7 billion of us were born with a spirit that is from God. Actually, we are spirit first, human second. Therefore, you have God’s DNA running through your veins and the more you get in touch with Christ, the more aligned your speech will be. More aligned to what? His purposes, of course. Isn’t “purpose” humanity’s greatest pursuit? If you're not seeking purpose, you're probably seeking happiness. Those that seek happiness are shallow; you’re not wrong, just not in touch. [It's ok, keep reading.] To seek constant happiness is to say there is no purpose for any other feeling. I can’t tell you how many different feelings I’ve had just in this day alone! Am I a failure because I was not happy all day today?

Happiness is the pursuit of a follower; purpose is the pursuit of a leader. Followers do what others do because they can’t think otherwise. Leaders think otherwise and people follow. If you seek purpose, you obtain a greater commodity than happiness; you obtain fulfillment.

So, you definitely want to be aligned with God’s purpose for your life because this is how you attain fulfillment. Here is how your speech brings you into alignment with purpose.

What was the first thing you learned when you went to school? For me, it was lunch time, but for you it was learning how to read. They taught us grammar, vocabulary words, numbers and how to form sentences. They didn’t do this because they were trying to turn a bunch of first graders into prolific writers; they were laying the foundation for us to learn the language. When you understand the language, you can communicate effectively. Ever been to a foreign country where they didn’t speak your language and all you wanted was some Tums because you ate something from the menu you couldn’t pronounce? Yeah. You know how important language is. Well, let me put it like this; purpose has its own language. Purpose also comes from a different country. Many people can’t find purpose for the same reason they can’t find Tums in a foreign country-they don’t know the language.

So what language does purpose speak? Well, just like any other language, you have to learn grammar, vocabulary words and sentence structure- you can’t get away from this. It’s just fundamental. You also have to practice speaking. The more you learn the language, the better you can understand purpose and communicate with it. Even the name of this language is powerful. I’m talking about Faith.

If you feel lost in life, think about how well you know faith.
If money no longer satisfies you, think about how well you know faith.
If you desire a fulfilled life, first think about how well you know faith.

You find Purpose by studying Faith. Faith originates in one book, and that book is the Bible. If you really think about it, the Bible is God’s mind on paper. Just like the manual in your car is the manufacturer’s mind on paper. And who knows the purpose of its product better than the manufacturer? God made us, so what’s more logical than reading His mind to find out why we were made? It just makes sense.

Take a look at these references from the Bible in Jeremiah 29:11;

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

Or how about this one from Romans 8:28;

“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”

It’s pretty obvious that God is waiting for us to learn the language. We learn the language when we read the Book. When we read the Book, we learn to align our speech with purpose, and therefore we speak the right things, at the right times and achieve the right goal-A fulfilled and purposeful life.