Pursuing Your PurposeSample

Science sees human beings as the result of a biological act that occurred when a sperm from a male and an egg from a female united. It may have been planned, or maybe it wasn’t. It can occur through natural means or in a petri dish. To unbelieving scientists, the creation of human life is a roll of the dice with different DNA factors fighting for dominance. 

From God’s perspective, nothing could be further from the truth. Your conception was a divine act with the God of the universe involved in every minute detail. The psalmist, realizing this truth, expressed his thanksgiving to God when he wrote, “I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14).

In the Old Testament, God appointed Jeremiah to the role of a prophet. Jeremiah’s mission was to warn Israel of the dangers of forgetting God and failing to serve the Lord. When Jeremiah wrote about discovering his purpose, God revealed to Jeremiah how He was involved in the prophet’s formation before the man was born. Quoting the Lord, Jeremiah wrote, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5). 

But it didn’t stop there. God even chose when and where we would be born. When I reflect on my life, I know that I couldn’t do what God called me to do if I lived in another time or even another culture. The people born then and there had the same mission (to glorify God), but their assignment was or is different from mine.

Jeremiah had a highly visible assignment. His assignment, however, wasn’t more important than the assignment God has for you. Jeremiah spoke to a nation. Your assignment might be ministering on a regular basis to one person. But considering how every person is valuable in the sight of God, then your assignment—highly visible or less visible—is equally important in God’s plan. When you find your purpose, you will say, “I was made for this!”