you can have the greatest attitude and perspective in the world. you can have the perfect plan for managing your time. but if you’ve got the wrong purpose you’re headed in the wrong direction. what’s the use of that?
if i start to run a race and i start running in the wrong direction the faster i run the further than i’m getting from my goal. some of you have been doing that. running as fast as you can, working as hard as you can but there’s this sneaky feeling in the back of your mind – “i’m getting further and further from where i want to be in life.” so what do we do when we feel that way? we run faster! hoping that somehow more energy is going to make it work.
i invite you to just stop, stop the running for a moment to think, “am i going in the right direction? maybe what i need is to turn around and start running in a different direction – the direction of GOD’s purpose. GOD’s purpose is the purpose that’s going to last.
how do i know that i’m going in the right direction? proverbs 19.21 (msg) talks about that, we humans keep brainstorming options and plans. but GOD’s purpose prevails. we’ve got lots of ideas. some of you have an idea a day – some of you have an idea a minute, a second. some of our ideas are going to work out and some of them aren’t. but GOD’s purpose will always prevail. so i can hook my life to GOD’s purpose, i’m going to hook my life to something that is going to last. that’s the purpose that you and i were made to live for. maybe the most important tool in time management is the single question, “GOD, what do you want me to do with my life today?”
have you ever seen the movie chariots of fire? it’s about the olympic champion eric little who, as a believer in CHRIST, decided that he would run the race with GOD’s purpose in mind. he eventually became a missionary to china – gave his life to the mission field in china. but in that race that he ran and won in the olympics there is that famous phrase “GOD made me for a purpose but HE also made me fast and when i run i feel HIS pleasure.” there’s a person who enjoyed GOD’s purpose in his life.
that’s what i want. i want to discover GOD’s purpose for my life, figure it out, run that race as hard as i can and then there’s the cheering crowd. there’s my family there, my friends there, my rivals there, the entire nation – the entire world watching to cheer this moment when i live out GOD’s purpose for my life.
just a thought from the front porch…
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