Purpose Driven Life Part-2

Purpose Driven Life- Part 2
You Are Not An Accident
I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born.
Isaiah 44:2
God doesn’t play dice.
Albert Einstein
You are not an accident.
You birth was no mistake or mishap, and you life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, He expected it.
Long before you wee conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing at this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you! The Bible says, “The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me.”
God prescribed every single detail of your body. He deliberately chose your race, the color of you skin, your hair, and every other feature. He custom made your body just the way He wanted it. He also determined the natural talents you would possess and the uniqueness of your personality. The Bible says, “You know me inside and out, You know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing to something.”
Because God made you for a reason, He also decided when you would be born and how long you would alive. He planned the days of your life in advance, choosing the exact time of your birth and death. The Bible says, “You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!”
God also planned where you’d be born and where you’d live for His purpose. Your race and nationality are not accident. God left no detail to change. He planned it all for His purpose. The Bible says, “From one man be made every nation,…and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.” Nothing in your life is arbitrary. Its all for purpose.
Most amazing God decided how you would be born. Regardless of the circumstances of your birth or who your parents are, God had a plan in creating in you. It’s doesn’t matter whether your parents were good, bad, or indifferent. God knew that those two individuals possessed exactly the right genetic makeup to create the custom “you” He had in mind. They had the DNA God wanted make you.
While there are illegitimate parents, there are no illegitimate children. Many children are unplanned by their parents, but they are not unplanned by God. God’s purpose took into account human error, and even sin.
God never does anything accidentally, and he never makes mistakes. He had a reason for everything He creates. God planned every plant and every animal, and every person was designed with a purpose in mind. God’s motive for creating you was His love. The Bible says, “Long before He laid down earth’s foundations, He had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of His love.”
God was thinking of you even before He, made the world. In fact, that’s why he created it! God designed this planet environment just so we could live in it. We are the focus of His love and the most valuable of all his creation. The Bible says, “God decided to gives us life through the word of truth so we might be the most important of all things He made.” This is how much God loves and values you!
God is not haphazard; He planned it all with great precision. The more physicist, biologists, and other scientists learn about the universe, and better we understand how it is uniquely suited for our existence, custom made by the exact specification that make human life possible.
Dr. Michael Denton, senior research fellow in human molecular genetics at the University of Otago in New Zealand, he concluded, “All the evidence available in the biological science supports the core proposition…that the cosmos is a specially designed whole with life and mankind as its fundamental goal and purpose, a whole in which all facets of reality have their meaning and explanation in the central fact. The Bible said the same thing thousands of years earlier: “God formed the earth….He did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhibited.”.
Why did God do this? Why did He bother to go to all the trouble of creating a universe for us? Because He is a God of love. This kind of love is difficult to fathom, but it’s fundamentally reliable. You were created as a special object of God’s love! God made you so He could love you. This is the truth to build your life on.
The bible tell us, “God is love.” It doesn’t say God has love. He is love! Love is the essence of God’s character. There is perfect love in the fellowship of the Trinity, so God didn’t need to create you. He hasn’t lonely. But He wanted to make you in order to express His love. God says, “I have carried you since you were born; I have taken care of you from you birth, even when you are old, I well be the same. Even when you hair has turned gray, I will take care of you. I made you and will take care of you.”
If there was no God, we would all be “accidents,” the result of astronomical random change in the universe. You could stop reading this book because life would have no purpose or meaning or significance. There would be no right or wrong, and no hope beyond our brief years here on earth.
But where is a God who made you for reason, and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives. The message paraphrase of Romans 12:3 says, “The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and what He does for us.”
This poem by Russel Kelfer sums it up:
You are who you are for a reason.
You’re part of an intricate plan.
You’re a precious and prefect unique design,
Called God’s special woman and man.
You look like you look for a reason.
Our God made no mistake.
He knit you together waiting the womb,
You’re just what he wanted to make.
The parents you had were the one He chose,
And no matter how you feel,
There were custom designed with God’s plan in mind,
And they bear the Master’s seal.
No, that trauma you faced was not easy.
And God wept that it hurt you so;
But it was allowed to shape your heart
So that into His likeness you’d grow.
You are who you are for a reason,
You have been formed by the Master’s rod.
You are who you are, beloved,
Because there is a God!
Part 2-Purpose Driven Life complete.
Examine your self………and still confuse? Wait for the forward part coming soon….
Thanks…Kuyud.
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My Journey of Life WIth God - Purpose Driven Life part-1

What is your purpose in this earth???
This Question always keeps our mind thinking and seeking the truth.

Discover your purpose with me.


Article adopted from the book of Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren.





The Purpose Driven Life
Part-1

What On Earth Am I Here For?

A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump;
A God-shaped life is a flourishing tree.
Proverbs 1:28 (Msg)

Bless are those who trust the Lord…
They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with
roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not
bothered by the heat of worried by long months of drought.
Their leaves stay green, and they go
right on producing delicious fruit.
Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NLT)

It All Starts With God

For everything, absolutely everything,
above and below, visible and invisible…
Everything got started in Him
and finds its purpose in Him. Colossians 1:16 (Msg)

Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.

It’s not about you.
The purpose driven life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It’s far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by His purpose and for His purpose.

The research for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point-ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like what do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose. The Bible says, “It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone’s life is in His Power.”

Contrary to what many popular books, movies, and seminars tell you won’t discover your life’s meaning by looking within yourself. You have probably tried that already. You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you and invention you had never seen before, you wouldn’t know its purpose, and the invention itself wouldn’t be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner’s manual could reveal its purpose.

I once got the lost in the mountains. When I stopped to ask for direction to the campsite, I was told, “You can’t get there from here. You must start from the other side of the mountain!” in the same way, you cannot arrive at your life’s purpose by staring with a focus on yourself. You must begin with God, your Creator. You exist only because God wills that you exist. You were made by God and for God-and until you understand that, life will never make sense. It is only in God what we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning and our purpose, our significance, our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

Many people try to use God for their own self-actualization, but that is a reversal of nature and is doomed to failure. You were make for God, not vise versa, and life is about letting God use you for His purposes, not you using Him for your own purpose. The Bible says, “Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life.”

I have read many books that suggest way to discover the purpose of my life. All of them could be classified as “self-help” books because they approach the subject from a self-centered viewpoint. Self-help books, even Christian ones, usually offer the same predicable steps to finding your life’s purpose: Consider your dreams. Clarify your values. Set some goals. Figure out what you are good at. Aim high. Go for it! Be disciplined. Believe you can achieve your goals. Involve others. Never give up.

Of course these recommendations often lead to great success. You can usually succeed in reaching a goal if you put your mind to it. But being successful and fulfilling your life’s purpose are not at all the same issue! You could reach all your personal goals, becoming a raving success by the world’s standard, and still miss the purpose for which God created you. You need more than self-help advise. The Bible says, “Self-help is no help at all. Self sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, you true self.”

As I send this article to you, this is not a self-help article. It is not about finding the right career, excellent in your studies, achieving your dreams, or planning your life. It is not about how to cram more activities into an overloaded schedule. Actually, it will teach you how to do less in life-by focusing on what matters most. It is about becoming what God created you to be.

How, then, do you discover the purpose you were created for? You have only two opinions. Your first opinion is speculation. This is what the most people choose. They conjecture, they guess, they theorized. When people say, “I’ve always thought life is…,” they mean, “This is the best guess I can come up with.” For thousands of years, brilliant philosophers have discussed and speculated about the meaning of life. Philosophy is an important subject and has its uses, but when it comes to determining the purpose of life, even the wisest philosophers are just guessing.



Fortunately, they are an alternative to speculation about the meaning and purpose of life. It’s revelation. We can turn to what meaning God has reveled about life in His Word. The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life’s purpose: Ask God…..! But how?

God has no left us in a dark to wonder and guess. He has clearly revealed His five purposes for our lives through the Bible. It is our Owner’s Manual, explaining why we are alive, how life works, what to avoid, and what to expect in the future it explains what no self-help or philosophy book could know. The bible says what no self-help or philosophy book could know. The Bible says, “God’s wisdom…goes deep into the interior of His purposes. It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest-what old determined as the way to bring out His best in us.”

God is not just a starting point of our life; He is the source of it. To discover your purpose in life you must turn to God’s Word, not the world’s wisdom. You must build your life on eternal truths, not pop psychology, success motivation, or inspirational stories. The Bible says, “It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, He had His eyes on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone.” This verse gives us three insights into your purpose.

1.You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ if you don’t have such a relationship, I will later explain how to begin one.
2.God was thinking of you long before you ever thought about Him. His purpose for you life predates you conception. He planned it before you exist, without your input! You may choose your career, your spouse, your hobbies, and many others of your life, but you don’t get to choose your purpose.
3.The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity. That’s what this book is about.

“Without God Life Makes No Sense”