Walking in Purpose

Walking in the Purpose God has for you

Whatever we have done will be left behind for the next generation to deal with.

Most of humanity is walking aimlessly

Walking with purpose is about taking every step with a goal in mind

of all the things God could reveal when speaking to people, every mystery of the universe, what he decided to say must have been the most important and most timely.

Jeremiah 1:5

Numbers 11:29

Purpose is God’s design on your life

The call of God is on every life

The interaction between heaven and Earth is not something to think of as an oddity or a rarity, but something special.

Our performance will fall to the level of our training, not our expectation

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What is Purpose?

Purpose is knowing why things are the way they are and accomplishing what it was meant to be accomplished

One of the designs of the moon is to pull the tides and to cause the water cycle to function properly. The moon also just so happens to be the exact same size of the sun in proportion to its distance. I got to see that in 8th grade.

The shape of the Earth as it spins causes the Coriolis effect, Which deflect objects moving in a straight line across a rotating object. This affects large scale weather patterns.

Think about plants and how they are designed. conveniently, this complicated organic structure is designed on a molecular level to create fruit that falls off the stem with ease and is filled with nutrients that are bodies are also conveniently able to digest and break apart and use for our own selves.

Clearly in God’s design, there was purpose in every aspect. If God’s creation, from the distance of the Earth to the sun, to the creatures that cover the earth, have a purpose and design that is so valuable to fulfill in its lifetime, how much more God’s prized creation, humanity?

God doesn’t call a few, God calls every human being to live a life of purpose that ends in a job well done. We just think of calling as in called to the ministry.

The God who has the key to all knowledge and every mystery, when speaking to his creation knows exactly what is the most important thing he could possibly say in the most perfect amount of time needed to say it, at the exact moment in all of history when to say it.

Jeremiah 1:5 NLT

“I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”

I don’t believe there are many people that are living that. Most of humanity is living a purposeless life and has fallen away from the commandments of God.

Purpose last throughout the ages

While a person might not be remembered in the mind of humanity, every action that has ever been done in obedience to God will be remembered when God viewing the world in the eternal, sees every result that has come about from that person’s obedience.

When God spoke to the Israelites when they were becoming a nation, God did not command for schools to be built in order to learn, but he said fear me and keep my commandments

Deuteronomy 28:1 NLT

“If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world.

Every aspect of society that is considered important, from the economical, agricultural, political, innovative, moral, and social, it is all contingent upon this reality of fearing God and keeping his commandments.

To walk in purpose is to walk in obedience. Moral failures is a direct opposition to the call of God on your life.

There’s no such thing as a small opportunity because every opportunity is important. Just because you don’t have a camera with “so and so’s ministry” doesn’t mean you aren’t doing things that matter, and the only thing that matters is that God sees what you do.

Walking in the purpose of God may not always appear glorious, though you are walking in it. Jesus said that greatness is serving. Sometimes it’s boring. Sometimes it’s just grunt work. Sometimes no one sees it. But integrity is about doing right when no one sees. If God is watching, that is all that counts. Your boss doesn’t need to promote you, God will promote. If you walk like Joseph then God will promote you when no one sees you. Though no one saw Joseph, no one believed in him, no one supported him financially, he, walking in integrity and not succumbing to moral failures was able to be given a promotion by the Lord and not by man that saved the offspring of Abraham from hunger that lasted 7 years. And all of the events leading up to this purpose and this calling were not praise worthy.

Conscious of God’s view on your life is essential to walking in purpose.

The life of Moses shows many things about walking in the purpose God had for him.

9 Things Moses Experienced to Fulfill His Calling

He was not ready to do what God called him to do

(Exodus 3:11, Exodus 4:10)

He had worries about how it was going to go

(Exodus 4:1)

He was afraid

(Exodus 4:13)

He had to put up with evil people

(Exodus 7:4-5)

He dealt with pride in the leadership

(Numbers 12:2-8)

The people complained against Moses

(Numbers 14:1-4)

The people wanted to kill Moses

(Numbers 14:10, Exodus 17:4)

Moses never quit and waited the 40 years

Moses wanted to quit, and the thing that God assigned him to do was the very thing he complained about

(Numbers 11:10-14)