You’re not an accident. God created you for a purpose. Unfortunately, most people don’t live with a sense of purpose. They go their own way, do their own thing, and ask God to bless it. They believe God’s will for them will just happen and aren’t intentionally seeking, finding, and walking in it.
My friend, this is just not the case. God’s will just doesn’t automatically happen in someone’s life. Consider someone who is a murderer. God’s purpose just didn’t automatically happen to him. It wasn’t God’s will for him to murder. He had a choice. He certainly didn’t live up to God’s purpose.
God has a purpose for every person, but it just doesn’t fall into place. Your life has to be intentionally lived for Him, or you, just like that murderer, won’t be able to control your own life. That murderer never began his life intending to commit murder, but in a moment of uncontrolled rage, he did. If his life had been deliberately focused on God’s good, acceptable, and perfect will, he would have, most likely, avoided taking another life. To be in God’s will, you must live a life that seeks to find, asks to receive, and continually knocks for His purpose to be opened (Matthew 7:7).
Paul pleads in Romans 12:1-2:
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
God doesn’t “prove” His will to you. He wants your life to prove what His perfect will is. He is always available to reveal it, but you must come to Him to begin the process. You must diligently seek Him and persevere to overcome all the distractions and hurdles which form against you. You must become a living sacrifice and be transformed by renewing your mind to discern His good, acceptable, and perfect will.
Jeremiah 29:11 is a familiar passage.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
But we rarely consider the next two verses.
“Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:12-13).
To know God’s purpose for your life, you must reach the place where you are exhausted by your “hit and misses”—where you determine not to waste any more time, stop doing your own thing, and start seeking His will. As long as you can live without knowing God’s purpose, that is what you will do. But when you reach that place where you begin to search for God’s will with all your heart, you prepare yourself to receive it.
Some people don’t want to be challenged. They wander through life, allowing hindrances and barriers to direct them instead of seeking God, hearing Him, and being led by the Holy Spirit. Getting out of our comfortably predictable routine to do something new can be intimidating. But we must be willing to step outside our comfort zone to find God’s purpose.
Step out of your comfort zone. God wants to reveal His heart to you, so seek Him with all your heart. You were created in God’s image for His purpose. Being transformed by the Word into His image challenges you. Allow the Holy Spirit to challenge your reasoning, perspective, and beliefs. You will most likely be shaken to the core. However, the joy of being in the center of God’s good, acceptable, and perfect will make the upheaval in your life worth it all.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you,” Jesus said. (Matthew 7:7)
Have you reached that place? God wants to give you His will, but you must first receive it as yours. It is never too late to ask, seek, and keep on knocking. You shall continually receive His purpose for your life and walk in it without doubt and fear, regardless of opinions, objections, or hazards. You shall live a rich, satisfying, and fulfilled life.
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