What is your reason for living? What's your purpose? Victor Frankl discovered that your full potential is released when you are convinced that you have purpose and meaning in life - and that your purpose is yet to be fulfilled.
That is especially true when we choose our destiny based on something that is beyond ourselves. When we begin to give ourselves to a cause or a purpose greater than ourselves, it changes us, it makes us better, it makes us stronger as we are forced to live by faith.
When you and I dream of a better world, we become better people. We grow. We distance ourselves from our comfort zones.
One of the roles that I have as a pastor in the church is to place people in our church family in ministries that fit their giftedness.
Sometimes people fit. Sometimes they don't based on their giftedness. It's like sticking a round peg in a square hole, they just don't fit. Availability does not always means success.
Yet at the same time, when I come across someone who is gifted in a certain area and challenge them to lead or help in a certain ministry and they balk for whatever reason, I go back to this thought. Are you wanting to grow? Are you wanting to break out of your comfort zones? Do you really look at people the way Jesus does, as those who need our help in a time of need? Are you willing to fulfill the purpose that God has for you in your life?
Nothing makes us feel better than helping someone else in whatever capacity.
I challenge all of us today to discover that God-given purpose he has for us - and then to take a step of faith and do what God has called us to do.
And here's the kicker: Even if you never achieve all of your dreams, you are always shaped by those dreams. And the higher the purpose, the stronger the person.
May you dream, and dream big today.
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