EVERYTHING Begins With PurposeНамуна

Day 2: What is your God-given passion? This is your first circle.

What do you love to do? What do you want to do when you’re done doing the things you have to do? What thing, cause, task, or people in the world do you put a quarter into, and a dollar seems to come back to your soul?

The answer to that question is the first clue to your God-given purpose and creates your first circle.

It is thought that King David wrote Psalm 37 in his old age. His life of war, poverty, riches, pleasures, pains, love, hate, fame, obscurity, infamy, and just about every reality a person could experience seems to take a moment of reflection as he looks back and sums up one overarching piece of advice to his readers.

Psalms 37:4:“Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”

I can already hear (as I have many times) a common pushback to this thought. I’ve heard people say things like, “It doesn’t matter what I’m passionate about. My heart is irrelevant. I just want to obey God.”

But what if part of God’s wisdom is to plant the clue to your greatest obedience in the form of passion in your heart?

A passion that doesn’t forget God but requires Him.

A passion that is birthed in the delight that comes from simply being His.

The passion of David led him to kill a giant.

The passion of Paul caused him to preach the Gospel regardless of the personal cost.

The passion of Jesus saved all who would believe.

Let’s fast forward and see if passion still matters.

The passion of believing manned, powered, sustained flight was possible “inflicted” Orville Wright with the strength to continue after multiple failures.

A passion for racial divisions being healed was the “dream” of MLK.

Every church, orphanage, mission, hospital, invention, and industry began as a passion. The electronic device in your hand right now was invented by someone with a passion!

A passion that keeps you awake at night and wakes you up in the morning with a smile on your face is a clue hidden inside the soul God has given you and saved for a purpose.

Believing God has made you for a reason with a purpose is vital to your answer! How you see what God has made you to be and what He has made you for frames the picture I’m asking you to see.

Orphans don’t dare to hope.

The hopes of sons and daughters generally match the level of their parents.

But Royal Heirs have hopes that affect nations and generations.

You are not an orphan. You are a son or daughter of God, and access, relationship, nobility, and authority are your inheritance from the King who adopted you in love. With that nobility comes a purpose that will burn inside you, and you would do well to heed its influence by dreaming of what God is saying about your purpose by the passion He has placed in your heart.

Homework: Over the next 24 hours, ask yourself this question.

If I could not fail, what would I dream of doing with the gift of passion God has placed inside my heart? Where would I go? Who would I serve? What would I change? Now, draw your first circle and write those words inside to prepare for the second question tomorrow.

It’s not too late to share this journey with others. Reach out to a friend and ask them to join you on this plan.