Might I ask you today, what’s your purpose in life? What gives meaning to your existence beyond making yourself happy? Because, without any shadow of doubt, a life spent purely gratifying your own desires, trying to make yourself happy, turns out to be one of the emptiest, most unsatisfying lives you can ever imagine. 

So, let me ask again … what’s your purpose? What do you do for others using your unique God-given gifts and abilities to bless and enrich their lives?

Early on, at age twelve, Jesus went missing in Jerusalem. Imagine Mary and Joseph: “We’ve misplaced the Saviour of the world.” And God looking at them, thinking … “I gave you one job to do!” But when they eventually found Him…

Luke 2:49-50 Jesus said to them, “Why did you have to look for me? You should have known that I must be where my Father’s work is.” But they did not understand the meaning of what he said to them.

So, from a very young age Jesus absolutely knew His purpose and got on with it. What a great role model!

C.S. Lewis once said: “The world might end in ten minutes; meanwhile, we’re to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one’s post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.”

The great temptation is to make our lives completely about ourselves, our comfort, our wants, our future. But that’s not what we’ve been put on this earth to do. That’s why it feels so empty.

God’s created you, gifted you, called you to do something that’s unique to you. Do the rest of us a favour, would you please. Get on with it!

That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.