What is Your Purpose?

What is your purpose in life? Why did God put you where you are now rather than bringing you to this earth 50 or 100 years ago?
 Is your purpose in life to gain riches, satisfaction, joy? None of these are bad but if they are your only purpose in life, you are missing the point of your birth. You are not put here to serve yourself but to serve others. It's difficult for anyone to say what your purpose in life is other than for the believer, it's to honor God; to do His will.

What is your purpose for this very moment? Life isn't given to us all at once but in small increments of seconds, minutes......moments. But, what is your purpose for this moment; the moment you are reading this.

Are you setting by your phone? Is there someone that needs a call?

Is there a pen ...and some paper on the table beside you?

Does someone need to hear from you with an encouraging word or perhaps a word of sympathy?

Maybe you are homebound but God has placed a name of someone on your heart that you are to pray for.

Are you at your work desk? When you look up, do you see another person? Do you need to invite that person to lunch with you ? Perhaps they need to unload their burdens on a listening ear. Or maybe they are unchurched and they need an invite from you to attend your church?

Are you working in a day care where a little child needs that extra hug they didn't get before they were placed in your care for the day?

Is there an elderly person who is lonely; who has lost a mate recently and has no one to share their grief?

Is there a student in your classroom that is dealing with a difficult home environment? Or maybe they are being bullied and afraid to let anyone know ? Do they need your smile and just a word to let them know that they are important to you and that you are proud of them?

What about that person who walks into your store? Do you have time for them or do you just let them browse and maybe walk out when what they really needed was some conversation?

What about your own family? When you are together in the evenings are you preoccupied with catching up on the latest news on TV or maybe answering your e-mail or checking your Facebook? Remember, those children God has given you won't be in your care always. This moment you have to give them your undivided attention will not come again.

Time is precious. Each moment that passes leaves us with that much less of it. We all have the same amount of time. God knew that 24 hours and 7 days a week was plenty of time to accomplish what He wants each of us to do. It's up to us to determine how we are going to spend those moments because we will never have them back.

A Time for Everything
For everything there is a season,
a time for every activity under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.
A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
A time to search and a time to quit searching.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.
A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace. Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 NLT