Embracing Your Eternal PurposeSample

Whether you’re naturally motivated by a search for Purpose or not doesn’t change the fact that there isn’t a person on this Earth who doesn’t have a Purpose and who God is calling to step into what He has for them, every day. Major revelation: If you’re still alive, there’s still a reason. What an incredible promise and sense of being known! You were intended. You were made ON purpose FOR a Purpose.

The Bible says, “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” Your Eternal Purpose stretches all the way back to before you were born, and forward to your “graduation” from the Earth, as God declares He has “determined” or “decided” the length of our lives. If you are still here, you are still intentional.

Famed poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. once wrote, “A man should share the action and passion of his times at peril of being judged not to have lived.” Gripped by the “peril” that it was to “live but not really live,” Holmes often wrote on this theme, saying more simply and famously: “Many people die with their music still in them.” It should be noted, Holmes was also a physician, which is poignant considering the healing effect of his words.

In the same or greater Gospel-driven passion, the apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesians that, “We are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

That’s Purpose in a single Scripture. We were created to “do good works” and we have a Creator-made Purpose rooted in Christ, “Prepared in advance for us to do.” We are known, intended, Called to “walk in” God’s promises. Even more beautiful, the root word behind the English “handiwork” from this verse, or “workmanship” as some translations say, is ποίημᾰ (poíēma), which is related to poème or “poem.” You are God’s poem. If you “die with the music still in you,” the world is robbed of your song, or the song God seeks to sing through your existence. Trusting Him in this ensures the enemy cannot silence the poetry of God that is your Eternal Purpose.