FULFILLING PURPOSE WITHOUT DISTRACTION

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: – Ephesians 1:11

“It’s dangerous to live without God. If you don’t know God, you’ll never know your reason for existence. And if you don’t know why you were born, you could live a completely WRONG LIFE. I didn’t say a BAD LIFE. There are many good people who are pursuing relationships, careers, and goals in life that are not best for them. What we have to concern ourselves with is LIVING EFFECTIVELY. The only way to live a fulfilled life is to know why you were born.

Have you ever had a new car break down on you right in the middle of traffic? You got out and kicked one of the tires. You just wanted to curse at it because the car wasn’t fulfilling its purpose. It was brand-new. It looked sleek. It had a nice paint job. But you couldn’t drive it What made you angry at the car? It’s simple: the car’s purpose was to transport you, to make you mobile; but the car was not taking you anywhere. No matter how great the car looked, it wasn’t right; it wasn’t fulfilling its purpose.

Many men are like that car. They’ve stopped in the middle of traffic, and they don’t even realize it. They’re spending their lives doing things that look good, but they don’t know God – or they know much too little about Him and His ways.

…Good deeds are not a substitute for rightness. Knowing and fulfilling your purpose is the only way to do what is right…

Discovering our PURPOSE enables us to stop wasting our lives and start fulfilling our POTENTIAL. However, then we must be careful not to become side-tracked along the way. The greatest way to destroy someone is to DISTRACT the person from his or her true purpose. Sometimes people will do this intentionally, as we saw from the example of Peter and Jesus (Mathew 16:22-23). However, whether people try to distract us out of the best or worst of intentions, we must learn to remain steadfast in the purpose for which we were created.