A few years ago I made a mid-afternoon pastoral visit to an unmarried couple living in our city. Sitting on the floor of their dark apartment, surrounded by ashtrays, prescription bottles, and piles of clothes, I learned that the couple’s daily routine revolved around smoking cigarettes and watching their one movie on their thirteen inch T.V. As the visit concluded, I gently asked this question: “Do you believe that God created you to live for a purpose?” After a long, thoughtful drag on her cigarette, the clearly bewildered and defeated woman responded honestly, “Sir, if we have a purpose, we have no idea what it is?”
Perhaps your life story sounds different from that of this couple. Nonetheless, many of us lack a clear sense of purpose. Some of us live to hear others laugh at our jokes. Others live for the weekend, or to pay off a mortgage, or to retire.
By contrast, all of us have a calling to live according to a grand design. Keep reading
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