Your Purpose/Gods plan

Each man, woman, teenager, and child has a purpose as unique as their fingerprint and as personal as their DNA. When God created each and every one of us, He established, in our spiritual DNA, a purpose and plan that you, and only you, would be able to fulfill. Rick Warren wrote the book, The Purpose Driven Life, and it became one of the top sellers of its time. People were looking and searching for the answer to one of the greatest questions of all time; What is my purpose and God's plan for my life?

God created each and every one of us with two voids in our being that would always cause us to feel a great loss until these voids were filled with God and his purpose and plan in our lives. A man or woman without a purpose is like a marble in a funnel. They go around and around until they become so weary, trying to find out what their purpose and God's plan is for their lives, that they finally begin a slow descent until they sink into the hole of despair. We try to fill these voids with sexual intimacy, drugs, alcohol, our jobs and anything we can get our hands on to try to stuff in the hole to stop us from feeling empty and lost. “Maybe if I work out harder.” “If I could afford that house or car I would fill the emptiness I am feeling in my heart.” “If I just lose 30 pounds I will be what I am supposed to be.” So many questions and so few answers.

Hollywood makes a fortune off of this question. They make commercials that try to convince you that if you just use their product you will become all you were meant to be. We just end up wasting our hard earned income and never achieving the empty promises made. Just stop eating so much and start working out until you drop and you can become what you are supposed to be. They pick the best looking people off of some Island somewhere and stick them on TV and shame us into using their product. Just buy these vitamins, pills, clothes and facial products and you will look as beautiful and handsome as these digitally brushed models look. You’re just not spending enough of your hard earned money. That is why you can't become Hollywood's distorted idea of what you are created for. Round and round it goes and where it stops, no one knows. We are so desperate to




look like what someone else looks like. They have all they desire because they look perfect without a blemish or pock mark on them. Not an ounce of fat or cellulite on their stomachs or legs. We are all looking for ourselves, but in all the wrong places. People ask, “What do you do for a living?” They are trying to see if your job classifies you to be worthy of talking to. Almost everything we do we are trying to justify our worth and purpose to those around us.
Trying to fill this great hole in your life, with all these false notions, is like trying to plug a hole in the Hoover Dam with your finger.

Instead of trying to imitate the character of a great man or woman in the Bible we try to imitate the look of a man or woman in the world. We would rather change our earthly status than our heavenly character. We are always chasing after the temporal rather than the eternal. As Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, once said, “This is meaningless, a chasing after the wind” (Ecclesiastes 2:26). You can never see where it is coming from or where it is going. Do you want to hear something that is sadly ironic? Men and women who are in prison, who had some of the biggest holes through the middle of them, were trying to fill that empty void with drugs and alcohol because they were bored and empty. They end up in a ten by ten foot prison cell, alone and bored for years and years. The very thing they were either looking for or running from gets them incarcerated for trying to fill this emptiness with everything except the one thing that would truly fill the void, God.

The Book of Solomon, in God's word, is all about one of the wisest and wealthiest men who ever lived. It gave study to this question, “What is our purpose and meaning in the world?” The whole book of Ecclesiastes is dedicated to one of the most asked questions ever pondered by mankind. What is my purpose and God's plan for my life?