knowing your purpose :: He's already spoken
Editor's Note: during the month of June, members of my Story Sessions community will be posting about what it means to pursue dreams, engage in self-care and practice active boundaries. They had free reign on what they wrote, and the topics come from my 30 Days of Prompts. I'm so excited about the wisdom these ladies will share with you, and I know you'll be inspired.
xoxo,
Elora Nicole
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It’s a question that’s perplexed the church for decades, and I think I’ve got the answer.Not meaning to be smug or anything but I just want to tell you I know what your calling is! And I know the calling of every single other person on the planet. Your purpose is to make disciples of all nations and to love God and love your neighbour. Do you want to know how I know? It’s because it is my purpose too.
It’s all very exciting isn’t it?
Before we go on I want to tell you this: God’s final word is His Son - Jesus is more than we need. Anything else is a bonus.
We have the bible; it’s the story of where we’ve come from, it’s the story of the people of God from creation, but along with that, it’s the mandate for where we’re going. While it can sometimes feel vague and confusing and fuzzy; If you’ve got the Holy Spirit inside you, and you’ve had a revelation of Jesus Christ, it is all you’ll ever need.
God made you. Do you know that? He formed your body, but He also made your spirit, He made you good at some things, and He gave you passions and desires. Did you know that? Did you know that He knows you?
I know that God speaks. I know that he speaks clearly to people, I’d never dispute that, my problem lies in the being dependent on the audible voice of God to move, sometimes to even obey what’s in the bible. Our purpose is obeying what’s in that Book. It really is that easy. He might speak to you, He might tell you exactly how He wants you to execute those commands. But that’s all He’s telling you, because His ultimate final word is His Son. Everything else is simply commentary.
‘We need to talk Sarah’ He said, ‘I want you to be a writer. Now I know you’re dyslexic and an introvert who doesn’t like to share your feelings, but this is something I want you to do.’ = the time God didn’t tell me He wanted me to be a writer.
I find purpose and meaning in writing that I get nowhere else in my life but God never told me to do it.
If I know what my passion is and I know what the bible says, I get to match those two things together.God didn’t create me to be a robot who waits for instruction before I eat cornflakes or rice crispies in the morning. I get to make choices, I get to choose to honour God in my decisions.
I brandish the word Godincidence around like it’s going out of fashion; mostly in a tongue-in-cheek way, but I am a massive believer in the Godincidence. I thought once that I might like to write, since I’ve been pursuing it I’ve discovered people actually like what I’ve got to say, I’ve made some internet friends and although I work long hours at my job my writing fits around them almost perfectly. You might call that a coincidence, I however call it a Godincidence.
I know some people who’d question whether or not God wants me to be a writer. They’d say I need to hear it from God; He’d need to tell me that’s what He wanted. They’d say I need to hear it in an audible voice and have someone else say it to me too. I say poppycock! (I’d say something stronger if I wasn’t writing in Elora’s space).
Guys please hear me: what I’m saying is that God speaks. But He has spoken, and if we’re not hearing Him, perhaps the first place we aught to be looking is to the bible.
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Sarah McCarten is a 30-year-old blogger/nanny. She’s from Yorkshire, but resides in Richmond in South West London, although you’ll often find her pottering around Watford. She loves Jesus, is passionate about theology, and she thinks she might want to be a vicar one day. She loves to write, sew, read, and cook. She’s not as funny as she thinks she is. She pretty much has the best friends in the world.
