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”