Naming Your Unique PurposeНамуна

There was once a woman, a foreigner, an outcast, who came face to face with God. She fled from injustice, fled as far as her feet could take her along with the babe in her womb. She fled until what felt like the end. It was there that God met her and revealed her purpose in a plan bigger than she could ever imagine.

While it isn’t unlike God to give people new names and identities, Hagar was the only person in the Bible to name God. She called him "El Roi"–The God Who Sees. She even named the well where she stood the "well of the living one who sees me."

What made this encounter special enough to warrant a new name? She came face to face with God; He told her of His great plans and her role in them; He saw her, and she lived.

There is something within each of our hearts that aches to know our role in God’s great plan. We want to know that our life matters and that we can do something meaningful with it. We, too, want to see. And we want to live, really live.

Are you feeling a niggle that you were designed to see more, to do more, and to experience more? That’s because you were made in the image of The God Who Sees.

God is not only a beautiful creator, but also a creator with wisdom, strategy, and precision. This means all of those seemingly random and small tugs on your heart that say you were meant to see more and do more are a clue to how He designed you.

As The God Who Sees made you in His image, He placed inside of you a piece of His heart to love who He loves, to see the things that are broken in this world, and the specific skill set needed to remove obstacles hindering others. It is already in you.

There is incredible power in being able to specifically name your unique purpose.

Allow this devotional to guide you, thoughtfully and prayerfully, to practice putting words to that which is deep within you. Words will allow you to see your unique role and how it relates to the greater whole. When you can visualize it, you can put plans in place to start living it out.

Think of it as a buried treasure, deep inside you. You will solve one clue at a time until you start to uncover the greatest treasure of all: your unique purpose. The value is more than all the gold on earth and can create more joy, wonder, and restoration than any worldly treasure ever could.

What does it feel like knowing that it is possible to name those deep God-given desires on my heart and begin to practice understanding them?