Purpose
Malcolm
Webber, Ph.D.
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Purpose
Introduction
Someone once said, “Efforts and courage are not enough without
purpose and direction.”
My oldest son, John, tried to teach me how to play a
particular card . He explained this rule and that rule: “Dad, you take this
card…and then that card…this card is worth this…and that card is worth that.” I
kept saying to him, “Well that’s fine, but what’s the object of the game?”
What is the object of what you are doing?
You may know all the rules and all the strategies, but
if you don’t know what the object of the is, you’ll never win. All that
other stuff won’t help you. But when you do know the object, then all the rest
is of use to you.
Many Christians are like that. They have a great
understanding of many of the “rules” of Christianity, but they don’t know what
the object is. They don’t know what their purpose is in it.
Think of running a race. You may have the best running
shoes money can buy, and know all about how to breathe, and how to run, and
even be in great physical condition, but if you don’t know where the finish
line is, you’re in trouble!
Perhaps you would just follow the crowd? This is what
many people in church do. They just follow the crowd, with no great sense of
purpose or direction.
Sometimes following the crowd will work, but many times
it will not work. What if those in the crowd don’t know where they’re going
either? Just because there’s a crowd doesn’t mean they’re going in the right
direction.
Someone has said, “Do not follow where the path may
lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Early in life, an aunt took former President Ronald
Reagan to a cobbler to have a pair of shoes made for him. The shoemaker asked
young Ronald, “Do you want a square toe or a round toe?” Reagan hemmed and
hawed. So the cobbler said, “Come back in a day or two and let me know what you
want.” A few days later the shoemaker saw Reagan on the street and asked what
he had decided about the shoes. “I still haven’t made up my mind, “the boy
answered. “Very well,” said the cobbler. When Reagan received the shoes, he was
shocked to see that one shoe had a square toe and the other a round toe. Years
later, Reagan said, “Looking at those shoes every day taught me a lesson. If
you don’t make your own decisions, somebody else will make them for you!”
We must know our direction – our purpose. When we know
our purpose we can have focus, and when we have focus we can achieve our goals
and accomplish God’s will for our lives and for our churches.
Chapter
1
The
Need for Purpose
The word of the Lord
came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you
were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jer.
1:4-5)
(God) has saved us and called us to a holy life – not
because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This
grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, (2 Tim. 1:9)
Before
the world began, God gave you grace. This means your salvation and eternal
life. Furthermore, He also gave you purpose before the world began. God gave
you a purpose: a purpose for living, a purpose for being saved, a purpose for
serving Him.
He
gave you a purpose: a reason for living, a goal to achieve. God gave you a
purpose.
But
what is your purpose? Who are you? What are you called to do with your life?
Many
people just float through life and never ask these questions. They bounce from
event to event in their lives, hopping from one stage of life to the next stage
of life: “I’m born, then I’m a child, I start going to school, I learn to read,
write and count, then I’m an adolescent, then a teenager, then I get a job or
go to college, then I get married and have kids, and I develop a career of some
kind, and I watch football on Saturdays and go to church on Sundays, then I get
old, retire and then I die, hoping for the best after that.”
But so
often we don’t stop and ask: Why?”
·
Who am I?
·
Why am I here?
·
What is my purpose in living?
·
What is my purpose as a Christian?
·
What has God called me to do?
If you
don’t know what your purpose is, you will probably miss it. You’ll probably
spend your life on a multitude of things that will clutter up your time, but
you will never fulfill God’s purpose for your life.
We can
be very busy in our lives without having a clear purpose in what we’re doing.
Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the
Lord’s purpose that prevails. (Prov. 19:21)
You
only have one life. You only have one opportunity to do God’s will and bring
Him glory. Your life is as the flower in the field (Jam. 1:10-11). It’s here
today and then it’s gone. So you need to know what God’s purpose for you is,
and then live your life with that purpose in mind.
Moreover,
you can know your purpose. God wants you to know what your purpose is. He’s not
hiding it from you.
Jesus
was a Man who was led by purpose. Jesus knew who He was, and He knew what He
was supposed to do.
He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and
on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood
up to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it,
he found the place where it is written: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to
proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to
release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Then he
rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of
everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, and he began by saying to them,
“Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” (Luke 4:16-21)
Jesus
clearly knew what His purpose was. Consequently, at the end of His ministry, He
was able to say to His Father:
I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work
you gave me to do. (John 17:4)
At the
end of his life, Paul could also write:
I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and
the time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight, I have
finished the race, I have kept the faith. (2 Tim. 4:6-7)
This
should be our goal at the end of our lives: to be able to say that we have
fulfilled our purpose.
We
Need Purpose In Our Churches
We
also need to know our purpose as a church. We need to know our corporate
purpose in God. Until we know for what reason our church exists, we have no
foundation, no motivation, and no direction or focus for ministry.
A
church consultant did a survey, and asked the members of nearly a thousand
churches the question: “Why does the church exist?” Of the church members
surveyed:
89% said, “The church’s purpose is to take care of my
family’s and my needs.”
11% said, “The purpose of the church is to win the world
for Jesus Christ.”
Then
the consultant asked the pastors of those same churches the very same question.
Of the
pastors:
90% said the purpose of the church was to win the world.
10% said the church’s purpose was to care for the needs
of the members.
The
answers of the pastors were almost exactly the opposite of the answers of the
church members! So is it any wonder that there is so much confusion,
disagreement, and division within churches when the leaders and the people
don’t agree on why the church even exists.
However,
there are some great benefits when there is a clear sense of purpose in a local
church:
1. A
clear purpose builds strength.
Without
a clear purpose for your life, you are weak. You meander in life, wandering
from this to that, with no passion, no motivation, no conviction and no
strength.
Corporately,
when the guiding vision or purpose for a church has died, then that church dies
too. It degenerates into parties and camps, and eventually it falls apart.
However,
the opposite is just as true: when there is a strong and clear vision in a
local church, the people are disciplined and focused. They work together with
energy and unity.
I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no
divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought.
(1 Cor. 1:10)
Paul
is not only writing about unity of doctrine in 1 Corinthians 1:10, but his
primary meaning is unity of purpose. When we have unity of purpose, we will
have harmony, peace, oneness of mind and a high level of morale. As one brother
said, “When you’re helping row the boat, you don’t have time to rock it!”
Thus,
clear purpose builds strong people and strong churches.
2. A
clear purpose reduces frustration.
There
are both negative and positive sides to purpose. Purpose tells us not only what
we should do, but also what we should not do. Therefore, we can focus on and
accomplish what we are called to do.
Each
individual believer and each local church is not called to do everything. The
world-wide universal church of Jesus Christ is called to do everything, but
individual Christians and churches are not. Our calling is not to do it all.
There is a difference between what God expects of His church and what God
expects of one local congregation or one individual believer.
As a
local church we have a distinctive part of the total responsibility of the whole
church, but God doesn’t expect us to do it all.
Some
think that God does expect them to do it all. A common idea found in many
congregations, or denominations, is that “our congregation” or “our
denomination” is God’s only resource here on this planet – or at least His
preeminent resource! The idea is that “if we don’t do it, it probably won’t get
done, or at least get done right...”
Of
course this is not true. Each church has only a small part to play in God’s
overall purpose.
The
same thing applies to you individually. You are not the only believer on the
earth. God hasn’t called you to be it all or to do it all. God has called you
to do one little bit, and you should leave the rest to someone else.
The
secret to effectiveness is to know what really counts, and then to do what
really counts for you, and not to worry about the rest, however noble it all
may be.
Each
local church should not merely look for good things for churches to do, or for
what worked well for someone else. We should look for how best to fulfill our
own purpose and calling in God.
In
addition, everything we do needs to fit our purpose. The ministries of our
churches should not merely be random good ideas that we picked up from someone
else. But they should all be a part of a conscious deliberate Holy
Spirit-inspired plan to fulfill our purpose.
This
means we must clearly know what our purpose is. Not having a clear purpose in
your life is like driving a car along the highway without having a destination.
Unfortunately, many churches are like that; and many people live their lives
like that. They just, as it were, get in the car and start driving down the
road. Then someone gets an impulse that they should turn here, and so they veer
off in that direction, then someone else decides that it would be good to turn
there, and so they swerve off in that direction. They constantly “fly by the
seat of their pants,” and half the time they go in circles. They may have a lot
of fun in doing this, but they never really accomplish anything or get
anywhere.
As
Christians, we often have a great ability to spiritualize our disorganization
or lack of purpose. We often justify that kind of personal lifestyle and church
lifestyle as “being led by the Spirit.” In reality we are as “reeds shaken in the
wind,” “blown about by every wind of doctrine.”
God is
calling His people to know His will for their lives, and to live to fulfill
that will. God is not a hard taskmaster; each of us can fulfill His will. But,
when we try to do it all, we get frustrated. We can’t do it all. So we must
focus on fulfilling our own purpose in God and not worry about the rest, but
leave that to others. Thus, a clear purpose reduces frustration.
3. A
clear purpose allows integration.
Churches
should not be mere collections of ministries bundled together. Our goal should
be integration. Our goal should be that all the ministries of the church fit
together, that they all have the same purpose, the same vision, the same goal.
They should all come from the same motivation. They should all be done
according to the same set of values. They should seek to accomplish the same
set of goals in the end.
Moreover,
your life should be the same way. You should spend time meditating on your life
to see how God wants to put it all together. God will show you how to integrate
all the aspects of your life, to make it work as a unified whole. God does not
want your family life to be divorced from your personal life, from your work
life, or from your church life.
God
wants our lives and our churches to be integrated, so that all the various
aspects and facets work together instead of competing against each other as
separate, isolated identities.
As
individuals, and as churches, we should seek one integrated identity. We want
all our parts to be working together, moving in the same direction and having
the same purpose.
4. A
clear purpose allows concentration.
The
light of the sun will warm the surface of a dry leaf that is on the ground. But
if you focus that light through a magnifying glass you will set the leaf on
fire. Moreover, if you concentrate even
more using a laser beam, you will be able to cut through a block of steel.
As we
focus our energies – individually and as a church – we will have considerably
more energy and a greater impact.
This
was Paul’s attitude. Paul focused on God’s purposes:
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken
hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward
what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has
called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:13-14)
Jesus
also focused on the purposes of God:
I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to
those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and
spitting. Because the Sovereign Lord
helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and
I know I will not be put to shame. (Is. 50:6-7)
The
more we allow our energies to be diffused the less success we will have in
fulfilling God’s will.
It is
better to be excellent at a few things than mediocre at many. However, unless
we know what our purpose is, we will not know where to concentrate. Thus,
having a clear purpose allows us to concentrate.
As
many have said, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
There
is a profound difference between efficiency and effectiveness. Efficiency is
doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. We do want to be
efficient, but we want primarily to be effective.
Some
lives and some churches are very well organized, but they do not accomplish
very much of significant value.
Efficiency
is not an end in itself. It should only be a means to the greater goal of
effectiveness: to do the right things, and not to waste our energy and time on
trivial things.
Many
Christians live their lives as if they were arranging the deck chairs on the
Titanic. Everything looks nice and very well organized but the ship is sinking!
We
need to keep our priorities straight and our lives and churches focused. We
need to do the right things. We should do them well, but excellence for its own
sake should not be our goal. Doing the precise will of God for our lives should
be our goal.
5. A
clear purpose assists evaluation.
God
tells us to evaluate ourselves:
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith;
test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you – unless, of
course, you fail the test? (2 Cor. 13:5)
Just
how do we evaluate our lives and our churches? We certainly do not do it by
comparing ourselves with others. We should evaluate our lives by asking:
·
What has God called us to do?
·
What is our purpose?
·
How well have we accomplished our purpose?
An
honest evaluation of our lives and of our churches is only possible if we have
first established a clear purpose.
In
the remainder of this book we will discuss:
·
Three
principles of purpose:
1.
Your
purpose is found in the will of God.
2.
Your
purpose is found in the pursuit of God.
3.
Your
purpose is found in the Word of God.
·
Six
paths to the discernment of purpose:
1.
You
discern God’s purpose through the Word of God.
2.
You
discern God’s purpose through the thoughts of your mind.
3.
You
discern God’s purpose through the inner witness in your heart by His Spirit.
4.
You
discern God’s purpose through prophetic revelation from God.
5.
You
discern God’s purpose through the counsel of others.
6.
You
discern God’s purpose through understanding your life’s experiences.
Chapter 2
Your
Purpose is Found in the Will of God
Many
Christians ask pastors, “How do I find my place in the church? Where do I fit
and how do I find that place?”
There
is a related question that is not asked as often (perhaps it should be) and
that is, “How do I discover my purpose in life?”
There
are some principles that will help you discern your purpose in life:
·
Your
purpose is found in the will of God.
·
Your
purpose is found in the pursuit of God.
·
Your
purpose is found in the Word of God.
Principle 1: Your Purpose is Found in the Will of God
(God) has saved us and called
us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of his own
purpose and grace… (2 Tim. 1:9)
God saved you according to His own purpose – not yours.
So, in considering our purpose, this must be our first question: “Lord, what is
the purpose you have given me?”
The question is not: “What do I want to accomplish in MY
life?” The question is rather: “How does God want me to glorify Him in my
life?”
Therefore do not be foolish,
but understand what the Lord’s will is. (Eph. 5:17)
God’s purpose will be understood by those whose first
desire is to obey God and do His will.
Many times, we struggle with this. We ask God what His
will is, and yet in our hearts we have not yet completely determined that we
will obey Him if He asks us to do something we don’t want to do.
Thus, the revelation of our purpose comes at the
“sacrificial altar” where we surrender our lives to God:
Therefore, I urge you,
brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices,
holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not
conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s
will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Rom. 12:1-2)
It is as we present our lives to God as living
sacrifices that we will understand His purpose. It is as we wrestle with our
own wills and our own selfish purposes, and as God breaks us and crucifies us
with the Lord Jesus, bringing our wills into surrender to His, that we put
ourselves in the place where God can fulfill His purpose through us.
Furthermore, God’s plan is not just that He shows us
what His will for us is and then we go off and struggle to do it in our own
strength and by our own wisdom. God’s way is through union with Jesus in His
death and resurrection. In union with Jesus, His purpose truly becomes our
purpose, and His life, strength and wisdom truly become our life, strength and
wisdom. Then we will fulfill His purpose in His way, by His grace, in His
strength, for His glory. That is what God wants.
Therefore, the purpose of God is a painful thing. It is
not a pretty thing. It involves crucifixion and death. Fulfillment of His
purpose comes through death: death to our own goals, our own ambitions, our own
purposes, our own wisdom and strength.
The purpose of God is not found in a big public meeting
when a world famous prophet calls you out in front of everyone and tells you
that you’re a great person and that you’ve got a spectacular calling and that
the whole world is going to notice you and adore you. But the purpose of God is
found in the quietness of your own inner life, in the pain of your own
wrestling and agonizing with God as He deals with you at the center of your
being and your will. The purpose of God is found as He deals with you about
lordship, as He deals with you about the central issue of who will really be
the Lord and God of your life.
When you were saved you received a whole Lord Jesus
Christ – an entire Lord Jesus. He gave Himself for you, holding nothing back,
and He gave Himself to you completely and without reservation. When you fully
surrender to the Lord Jesus He receives a whole you. That is what He wants.
Furthermore, that is all He will accept.
In taxation, the government asks us for a percentage of
our income. But Jesus demands the entirety of our lives: all we are, all we
have, all we ever will be.
He gave Himself completely to you. He requires that you
give yourself completely to Him, as a living sacrifice.
The emblem of the Moravian missionaries was an altar and
a yoke, with an ox standing between them. Underneath are the Latin words for,
“Ready for either.” We are the ox between the yoke and the sacrifice. The
choice is God’s. From our side, we must choose to be “ready for either.” We
must be ready to die for God if He so chooses; we must be ready to live a life
of service for God if that’s what He wants.
When Jesus redeemed you, He purchased you. He didn’t
just purchase your freedom from sin and eternal destruction; He purchased you.
Do you not know that your body
is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?
You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your
body. (1 Cor. 6:19-20)
God purchased you – all of you – and He did it once and
for all. He has already purchased every aspect of your life. He owns your life,
but He still wants you to lay it on the altar by an act of your will. He still
wants you to bring it to Him, to give it to Him, keeping nothing back for
yourself.
Many times we give to the Lord those parts of our lives
that we really don’t want anyway. Modern evangelism doesn’t help in this
regard. We tell people: “Come to Jesus, give Him your pain, give Him your
hurts, give Him your sin.” But that’s not what the gospel of the Kingdom is.
The message of the Kingdom is: God demands you – not just your hurts or pains,
or your debts, but you. Not just the things you don’t want anyway, but the
things you do want: give it all to Him. Give yourself to Him. That’s the
gospel!
Sometimes people, whose lives are in a mess, get saved
when we tell them to give their hurts to Jesus. However, as soon as things in
their lives look a little better, they turn around and take their lives back
again, and we wonder why. But we weren’t honest with them in the first place.
The gospel is Jesus’ demand for all of you in response to His gift to you of
all of Him. Jesus gave all of Himself for you and to you, that you may give all
of yourself to Him.
Only you can do that – only you can make that decision.
No one else can get married for you, and no one else can become a fully
surrendered Christian for you.
We all must wrestle for ourselves. We all must answer
the question for ourselves: who will we serve – ourselves or God? Who will we
truly make the Lord of our lives? Not just the Lord of our pain and the Lord of
the things we don’t want, but Lord of all.
Enemies of Surrender to God
Here are some of the reasons we do not surrender
ourselves to God:
1. Laziness.
All of this seems like such hard work – surrendering to
God in the first place, and then serving Him with abandon for the rest of your
life. Many people want to get away with the bare minimum of Christian
experience. They want to somehow make it into God’s kingdom in the end. They
want somehow to scrape through life just being saved in the end, but without
getting too radical in the meantime. Such spiritual laziness is the mortal
enemy of the purpose of God in your life.
2. Self-sufficiency.
This is the attitude of: “Why do I need to be
surrendered? I’m getting along pretty well by myself. Why do I need to give
myself to Jesus?”
In America, this is probably our greatest problem. In a
time of great peace and great prosperity, we’re doing fine without God. Even in
our churches, we’re doing fine without God! Many churches carry on with their
own programs and agendas and plans. It all looks pious but God is not in it.
It’s like the whirlwind outside of Elijah’s cave: a tremendous amount of noise
and fuss, but God isn’t in it. Sometimes we may wonder if we in America even
know or care whether or not God is with us and in what we do, because we can
make it work so well without Him.
3. Hostility.
Some Christians declare their life to be one of
surrender and obedience to God and yet they are either incredibly boring and
dull on the one hand, or they are off on some weird, unbalanced tangent on the
other. Consequently, other Christians don’t want to be like them. Nevertheless,
God is not boring and neither is He weird and unbalanced.
Moreover, people who are boring or weird are usually not
surrendered to God, anyway. They’re usually following their own purposes and
agendas; they just know how to say the right things.
In any case, God is not going to put you in someone
else’s mold. You have unique fingerprints. God has only made one like you
(thank God!) and, fully surrendered to the Lord Jesus, you will be the one that
God wants you to be.
So, do not try to imitate someone else in any way.
Follow the Lord Jesus and be what He wants you to be.
4. Suspicion.
Some Christians are suspicious of God. They suspect that
He will take advantage of them, in some way, if they give Him absolutely
everything. What a foolish thought! God loves you more than you love yourself.
He’s not going to take advantage of you. He’s not going to use you or abuse
you.
Some people are afraid that if they surrender fully to
God, then maybe He’ll send them to China or somewhere. Well, maybe He will. But
if that’s what He wants for you, then you’ll be far happier in China in the
middle of His purpose, than you will be somewhere else, out of God’s purpose.
God is wiser than you are. His ways and purposes are
better than yours!
5. Fear of unfulfillment.
Some are afraid that a secret hope will be unfulfilled.
They are afraid that if they give themselves to God they will not be able to do
something that they really want to do.
Certainly there may be some secret sin you want to try
that God won’t let you do. Or perhaps there is some ambition in your heart, and
you’re not sure God shares it. But, whatever God does have for you will be
better – far, far better – than whatever ideas you have for yourself.
Furthermore, when you surrender yourself to God He takes the desire for those
other things out of your heart anyway.
6. Fear of failure.
Some are afraid that if they surrender to God, they will
not be able to keep it up. They think that it will be too hard for them. But
God will help you fulfill His purpose.
To him who is able to keep you
from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and
with great joy – to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and
authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore!
Amen. (Jude 24-25)
God has the power to guide you; He has the power to keep
you. Your failure in the past has not been because you were surrendered to God;
it was because you weren’t!
7. The sins of the past.
For some people, the sins and failures of the past keep
them from God now.
However, when Jesus forgives, He also forgets. Our sins
and failures of the past are as far from us as the east is from the west:
For as high as the heavens are
above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the
east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. (Ps.
103:11-12)
Sometimes people don’t let the past go because they
carry guilt around. If God has forgiven us, we should let the past go, and get
on with our purpose in God!
Full Surrender
What does full surrender mean?
It
means, firstly, that you give to the Lord Jesus as much of yourself as you know
of yourself, and then the rest that you don’t know. There are vast areas of
your will, your understanding, your emotions, and your affections that you
don’t know.
My conscience is clear, but
that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. (1 Cor. 4:4)
…God is greater than our
hearts, and he knows everything. (1 John 3:20)
So bundle it all together – all you know of yourself –
and all you don’t know of yourself – and lay it once and for all in His hand.
Secondly, purpose to do that daily. Purpose to do it
minute by minute: to continually hand over the lordship of your heart and life
to Him. Once is not enough; you need to do it daily.
This daily, ongoing submission to God will have a
significant practical impact on the decisions you make. In all your decisions,
you should humbly submit, in advance, to the outworking of God’s sovereign will
as it touches your every decision:
Now listen, you who say,
“Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry
on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen
tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and
then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will
live and do this or that.” (Jam. 4:13-15)
If you do not surrender to God daily, your initial
surrender to God will become some past memory getting sadder and sadder as the
years go by.
Give all your purposes, ambitions, desires, motives,
agendas and activities to Him. Give him your mind, your thoughts and your
imaginations. He owns it all anyway. Your thoughts are not just your private possessions.
They are His. He has purchased the rightful ownership of them with His own
blood. So, give them to Him: day by day, minute by minute.
Chapter
3
Your
Purpose is Found in the Pursuit of God
As we have seen, our purpose is found in God – in His
will. So we must daily seek heart surrender to Him and to His plan in order to
know His purpose. We don’t want to pursue our purpose at all; we want to pursue
His purpose for us.
Our purpose is found in the will of God. Yet the will