Begin with God

The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, your dreams, ambition, and even out your happiness. To know why you are on this planet, you need to start with graven image, because you were born by HIS purpose and for HIS purpose. For instance, you bought equipment, without the manual you may never know how to operate hardly guess. Its only the creator or the owner of the equipment that could reveal its purpose and how it works (may be through a manual) In the same management, you cannot arrive at your lifes purpose by starting with a focus on yourself you must begin with God, your creator. It is only in God that you discover your origin, your identity, your meaning, your purpose, your deduction and your destiny. Proverbs 1128Colossians 1 16 for everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him Have you ever ask yourself the followingWhat do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, and my dreams for my future? The above questions are focused self centered, rather the question should be. What is the purpose of God for my life? Romans 86 obsession with self in these matters is a dead end, attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious scanty life Job 12 10 It is God who directs the lives of his creatures everyones life is in his power You could reach your personal goals, become a raving triumph by the worlds standard and still miss the purpose for which God created you. Discovering Purpose is about becoming what God created you to be.How to Discover Purpose a.By shot (guess, theorize, conjecture etc) some people made up a purpose for life others were honest enough to say they were clueless b.By Revelation the easiest and the only way to discover purpose is to ask the creator of it (Ask God) because God has not left us in the dark to wonder and guess. HE has revealed five pur poses for our lives through the ledger (i.e. Owners manual) 1 Corinthians 2 7Gods wisdom goes deep into the interior of his purposes, its not the latest message, but more(prenominal) like the oldest, what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us God is not just the starting stopover but the source of it, so to discover purpose we must turn to Gods al-Quran and build our lives on eternal truth. Ephesians 111It is in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone1.Through relationship with God 2.Turn to Gods word to find out who you are and what you are living for 3.God knew us even before you were born and had designed/shaped purpose for your life, HE planned your existence, which predates your existence, without your insert 4.Live a glorious life that will gl orify HIS name 5.The purpose of your life fits into a much larger purpose that God has designed for infinity Jeremiah 17 7 8