Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Where you are when you are

Lately I have been thinking about being where you are meant to be in life.  Not about being where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there, but rather where you purposefully meant to be in life by God or destiny to make an impact in life.  
It's interesting when I look at the masterpiece known as "my life" and I am actually able to retrospectively fit all the pieces, good or bad, into how they played a role in bringing me to where I am now in life.  It's kind of scary because at this point I KNOW I am, where I am, not by accident. Not because God wants me to get my way but because that is where He WANTS me to be.  
Naturally this begs the obvious question to follow: why does he want me here?  What am I supposed to accomplish and how?  This is where I struggle to understand.  Is there a specific goal for me to achieve?  Is there a specific life I need to touch or save so they can go on to impact the world in their own way?  I am I there to die a martyr in some dramatic event? We as humans have a hard time fathoming our purpose.  Personally, I think we make our purpose too great sometimes.  From a Christian perspective, I think that our purpose is not as significant or dramatic as we would like to make it out to be.  That is our human nature at work.  I think that our purpose, in a nutshell is simply this: Live a wholesome, Godly life.  One that people can see Christ through you and your actions as you serve them with a servant's heart.  That, to me is our purpose wherever it is we are placed in life. 
So how do you do that?  Well for me I think it is serving with humility and not being arrogant about my education.  It's about having compassion when people are in need and rolling the dice and betting on people when the odds aren't good.  Extending credit when it's questionable in good faith they will keep their word and sucking it up and footing bill when they cannot, and not holding it over them or against them but giving freely and without expectation.  I really think that is what God wants me to do, where I am at in my life and in this world.  What will the future bring?  Who will play a part in my future?  Only God knows.  But I do know this: I will do my best to understand what His expectations of me are and how to accomplish them in all things no matter where he sends me or who he puts in my life.   

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