a. What on earth are you doing for God's sake?
A story is told about a prince who loves hunting. So he goes out hunting with his bow and arrow. He comes across a gazelle and just as he is about to shoot, the gazelle asks
“What on earth are you doing for God’s sake?’
“Well, am hunting.’ He says, shocked that the gazelle can talk
“I don’t mean that, ‘the gazelle explains,” I mean God has given you a gift of life what are you doing for him.’
What the gazelle is trying to explain to this prince is that you are given the gift of life for a reason. The second you discover why, then you begin to live a life of purpose and reason. Surely life has to be more than just ‘hunting’ and being busy.
God sent you to this world to accomplish a certain mission and purpose. You may decide to engage in a thousand things and duties but until you achieve the mission that was set before you, everything else is just a side show. Your purpose is not the job you do but rather your purpose is what shapes everything that you do, including your job. Henry David Thoreau put it so well. “Men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
So how will you know your purpose, the reason you are here?
Suppose I have an invention held on my hand that you have never seen before and I ask you what that invention does. You wouldn’t have an answer to that, would you? The only way you would know how the invention works is either to read the maker’s manual or ask the maker. The Maker’s manual of life is the bible and your Creator is God. And it is only as you get to know God you will discover his purpose for your life. I hope you'll begin that journey today.
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