Aligning With Your Purpose : Beginners Guide To Identifying Your Gifts, Talents, & Abilities

What Is the Meaning of Life? How To Discover the Purpose of Life

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A Personal Challenge

I want to share some of the lessons I learned while seeking the help of pastors and mentors to answer this question that many philosophers have been debating over for centuries. I must admit I often link my career accomplishments with my identity, which can lead to us falling short of our true God-given purpose in life. Therefore, for the Christian, we are to live to bring glory to God—how we do that is through prayer and study of His Word, the Bible, so that we might better know what He has for us.

Here are ten ways to glorify God in your everyday life. God has left us with a wealth of knowledge of the Bible to help us. I believe to live a life with both passion and purpose we must continue to learn who Jesus Christ is and what he says our purpose in life is.

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As you seek your purpose, understand that each day we live is a gift and ask how to make the most of your life by living by faith and not by sight. God has better plans for us than we can imagine and he does things, which we may not be able to understand but trust in his will. Through scripture, there are several ways we can live a purpose driven life.

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. Take time and reflect if you feel you desire materialistic possessions or want pride and power. Besides more than likely, your family will be by your bedside, and they love you unconditionally, not because of what you have. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Now that we understand what the will of God is for our life we must look at the many promises of God when we seek first the kingdom of God. Instinct and purpose are built into every creature that exists.

From spiders that help maintain the population of flying insects to hummingbirds and bees who help pollinate the local foliage, there is a system and process in place that helps nature not just exist, but thrive. The same is true for us as a human race as well, except we were given a much more unique, some would say even a higher purpose, for living.

Unlike inanimate objects, or even many of the living plants and creatures that share our planet, the human race was created with the ability to thin k, assess, evaluate, and choose. Sometimes we use our elevated ability to choose our best options in life and find ourselves thriving as we experience success and fulfillment on a regular basis. This is when we are aligned within the order, processes and systems that all work together within our created universe. Because of our unique ability to use our high-functioning brains to make moral choices in how we go about finding the meaning of life, we are also prone to overthink those options.

Because we are so afraid of making a wrong choice that we just stay where we are, afraid of the unknown possibilities that we could achieve if we just made the decision to take that first step toward finding out the answer to this question: What is the purpose of life? Many times we overthink our options because we are afraid to fail. The problem there is that we only fail at life when we stop trying.

When we get stuck, sometimes we think that the only answer is for someone else to come bail us out, to tell us what to do, show us where to go, to fill our need of affirmation, fulfillment and purpose, and to do the hard work for us. We simply had to choose to do so. Thinking about doing something is not the same as actually doing something. At least you chose to move. Behave our way into being noticed. Footholds appear when we move our feet, not when we scream out for help. There is no other person, place, position, title, or amount of money that can fill the need for purpose and meaning in our lives.

No one else is meant to carry the burden of our personal purpose and fulfillment. To put that off on someone else is equivalent to abandoning the systems and process already set in place. Shirking your ability to pursue your own value, worth, and purpose puts you out of alignment with the rest of creation that exists, and you only find yourself further and further away from the people and things in life that truly matter, and further away from that which will bring you the fulfillment, purpose and meaning that you seek.

Other than overthinking it, the next greatest disservice we sometimes do to ourselves is that we fail to think enough about some of the things in life that matter most. In fact, many people actually dismiss the things in their life that could actually provide them with the very answers they are seeking as they ponder the meaning of life! Without realize it, many of us have fallen into the trap of thinking that obtaining stuff will somehow lead to a purposeful and fulfilling life.

However, if we just take a moment to think about this, it soon becomes clear that working for all the stuff only takes us away from the people that matter to us the most.

The Simple Guide To Find Your God Given Purpose In Life

What matters is utilizing our gifts and talents in life to help fill a need in this world. That is how you open up the floodgates of joy and fulfillment in life.

Another trap we fall into is that we need to somehow turn into someone else in order to find purpose and fulfillment. So we morph into some manufactured template that dictates daily how we should look, walk, talk, dress, and behave, and then wonder why we feel so empty, useless, and unfulfilled. We underthink our power as a unique individual, including our natural talents and giftedness.

There are things that each of us can do so naturally and effortlessly that we come to believe everyone can do what we do, and probably better. So we discard those abilities as nothing special in pursuit of a skill we think will elevate our status somehow, or make us more money. If we took a moment to sit back, think about, and assess our choices, the moment of derailment will become clear.

Regardless of your belief in how we all came to be, our creation alone is testament to the fact that there is a reason and order to the existence of all things.

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