Many
Christian people today are not living the successful lives that God intended
for them because they have missed the purpose for their life.
Eph 2:10
For
we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
If you are
going to live successfully, you have to know what it is you are all about.
What’s your job? What functionality do you have? You need to know the answers
to those questions so that you as a tool are not used for something other than
what you were created for. We all know that tools that are used for things that
they were not created for run the risk of getting damaged.
The other
day I was asked to hang a framed family photo on our living room wall by my
wife. I of course oblige and went searching for a nail to use. Once I found the
right size nail for this over sized picture frame I then started looking for a
hammer. I looked for about five minutes and due to my laziness I decided that a
medium size wrench would do the job for me (don’t get too self-righteous,
you’ve done it too!). Sometimes being lazy causes us to use whatever is handy
and not always what is right in order to get the job done.
With the
wrench I knew I could get the nail in the wall, but I was not completely for
sure how effective I was going to be with it. There’s a chance I could dent the
wall, bend the nail, or scratch up the wrench.
Too many
times Christians today are not functioning or flowing in the thing they were
created for, and consequently, they are not effective. And sometime they two
get hurt and damaged.
You do have
a purpose. The bible tells us all that in Eph 2. This week pray that God shows
you that purpose, and then develop the gifts God have given you to fulfill that
purpose.
