This can be a challenging question. Many people do not want to take responsibility for owning the destiny God has made them for. I see people often avoid the hard questions and find it so much easier to live in the routine, sleepiness of religion.
These ‘hard’ questions are actually the ones that lead to life and freedom as we release who God has made us to be:
- What are your core values, those things that truly are most important to you in life (tombstone-type values)?
- What passions and purposes has God shaped in you through your experiences and His Word in you?
- How are you best equipped to serve this world with Kingdom purposes?
- Where is God sending you to serve Him? (This could refer to geography, but also to what place of influence, or what group of people, or what vocational situation, etc.)
Does answering these questions bring immediate movement in the direction of our destiny? Not, but it’s a start in hearing His voice speaking uniquely to us. Then the adventure begins as we daily listen to His leadings (and His truths within us) and walk that out. Daily allowing Him to direct us into His full destiny. Can life be any fuller than that?
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6 responses to “Are We Moving Toward Our Own Destiny?”
As a born again christian, as well as opperating a ministry to pisoners, I have seen some of the bad side of humanity, as well as the perseption of the acts of man.
Now in in a diferent state and living on my own I’m having a hard time finding a fellowship to attend, as I have no contact with my privios way of life.
Please help me find a fellowship that I may assosiate with.
I was just praying this morning about the mediocrity in the church. It isn’t that many people don’t have some inclination toward God, it is just that our society and seeker friendly bent has made God somethign we can take or leave. Those that do take him are often ‘consumer Christians’ asking, “what can God do for me today.” We need a genuine awaking, not another “revival” to stir up more flesh. I am inclined to believe that true widespread awakening is our only hope and that it can only be fostered through prayer and humility of the existing church who understand the hour in which we live. The western church looks more and more like Laodicea all the time.
Hey Lee, I’ve sent you an email regarding this.
What if you’re like me, without any exceptional abilities (ie. not a leader, never led a soul to Christ although tried, not prophetic, sinful, arrogant, not apostolic, not a tongue speaker, unsatisfied with Churchianity, basically dead spiritual life, etc.)?
The only thing I can *do* spiritually is whine and groan and long to have more of Christ and seek Him. What can an exceptionally useless person like me do for such a holy and worthy God? He’s worthy of useful obedient people. Apostolic people like Frank Viola, prophetic people like Eric Reiber, great teachers like Marc Driscoll, great (yet) humble and broken people like Paul Washer, men who trust God greatly like Wolfgang Simson.
I don’t mean to focus on me, but on the God who is not worthy of scum but of broken, humble men, yea, of everything!
Not sure how to encourage, Eric, but whining and groaning to have more of Christ is an exceptional place to be. Sometimes exceptional-looking giftedness can be misleading, and what we really need more of is people just hungry for more of God.
Thanks for trying.
..but I disagree. I think the guy with 10 talents who went out and made good use of this gift and made 10 more was much more useful than the fool who only had and buried it.
God deserves everything for what He has done. He’s Holy. He’s majestic. He’s King. He’s enthroned. He dwells in utterly pure unapproachable light yet sent His Son, in whom dwelt all His Holy Splendor, down to find us. His only begotten, down to the dusty trails of earth. And then this Christ lived perfectly, was then flogged, spat on, struck, mocked, crucified, and then became sin in our place, then was abandoned by His Father, who proceeded to crush Him (Is 53:10) – made Him drink His cup of wrath (Ps 75). And then Jesus cried out under this horrendous fury “It is FINISHED!” And then He rises from the dead 3 (Jewish) days later and single-handedly slaughters death and kicks open that tomb and brings salvation to all the world. And then He ascends and, being perfected through suffering, enters Heaven as the true High Priest Melchizedek, the King of Peace, and sits enthroned above all, with a name that is superior to the angels that He made, and then He commands to His weakest servant, me, “I say to you boy, get up!”(Lc 7:14)
And all I can do is weep over my uselessness.
This should not be. He is worthy of much, much, more.