Purpose & Identity

Focus

Our purpose flows naturally out of our identity, so as you begin this devotional, allow these three questions to help you prayerfully and mindfully reflect:

• Who does God say I am?
• Who has God made me to be?
• What has God called me to do?

Listen

Michael Berg — Vocation: The Setting for Human Flourishing

“Who am I?” is a fair question we all ask of ourselves. Perhaps it is better to ask, “Who has God made me to be, and to whom has God called me to serve?” You are valuable not because of your last name, your salary, or position, but because of Christ: first in your baptismal identity as one redeemed by Christ crucified and second as coworkers with God in his economy of Love.”

Apply

Make a list of all the ways you identify yourself and how those identifiers shape how you live:

How might your various identifiers (relationships, career, ability, ethnicity, gender, experiences, etc.) inform how you live in the world?

How might your identity as “God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works” shape your purpose in life?

Respond

Now, prayerfully consider how your identity in Christ might soak into all other parts of your identity. Talk to God about how you might “live by faith” at home, work, and community.

Closing Prayer

Thank God, who loves you so much, for your identity and life in Christ.

Confess to God where you may have strayed away from your primary identity and purpose.

Ask God how you might practically live into this identity today