A simple explanation to finding your purpose
What is my purpose? What am I meant to do with my life? What is God’s plan for me? These are all questions many of us ask at one point or another in our lives. We aim to answer some of these questions as we unpack what it is to step into your purpose. Join a few of our C3 College students as they shed some light on this topic.
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Simplified Purpose
The idea of “purpose” is something I was quite confused about growing up in church.
How did God want to use me? When would I find out? What was I supposed to do until then? I would often ask these questions and come up empty and discouraged.
This was a constant struggle until one day I came across a scripture that honestly changed my life – “Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” (1 Cor. 10:31)
Revelation set in.
Yes, God has detailed unique plans for each of us. Yes, your purpose is different to everyone else’s purpose. But all these things exist for one, overarching, collective and intrinsic purpose: to bring glory to God.
God isn’t seeking an ego-boost! His call to be glorified comes out of His great love for us. He knows that when we realise his goodness and ascribe worth to Him, we receive revelation and start to understand His love for us on a deeper level. This love changes everything.
God loves us whether we glorify Him or not, but his desire is for us to know the fullness of that love. All glory to God! This is our purpose.
Written by Hannah White
Accompanying bible verse
NIV version
1 Corinthians 10:31
31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
Romans 6:13
13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
Isaiah 43:5-7
5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you;
I will bring your children from the east
and gather you from the west.
6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
7 everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made.”
Step into Purpose – Day 3
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