August 28, 2024

THRIVE: LIVING ON PURPOSE- Purpose Questioned (YOU-Fall’24, Study 1, Session 1)

28 minutes

Life can often feel like a hamster in a wheel.

The salesman clinches a deal only to spin again on that wheel to find another customer.

The fry cook sends out dish after dish only to clean the grill and start all over again tomorrow.

You mow the yard only to have to do it all over again next week.

You clean the house thoroughly, but before the cleaning supplies are put away, the dust has already started to return.

Do this long enough, and you might gravitate to that one question that’s a perennial favorite among three-year-olds: “Why?” While the kid directs his question to everyone else, as adults, we often ask that question of ourselves. “Why am I doing this? What’s it all for?” You can come to the end of your life with that three-year-old’s “why” still reverberating in your head.

The whirl of the hamster wheel can blur your vision to the fact that your life has purpose, but that purpose is only realized when you look to the One who gave you that purpose. As Solomon discovered, looking anywhere else for your purpose is meaningless.”

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