20/02/2025
*Topic* . *Understanding and working out your purpose.*
*Introduction* the purpose of a person's life is far beyond one's own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It is far beyond our family, career, dreams and ambitions.
What is your (my) purpose. The search for purpose has puzzled humanity for long and still.... That is because we often focus at the wrong thing to look into, by asking self centred questions like;
*What do I want to be.
*What should I do with my life.
*What are my goals, dreams and ambitions for my future....
All these self centred questions will never reveal our life's purpose but in Christ alone for "it is God who direct the lives of His creatures, everyone's life is in His power".
For one to understand his/her purpose and reason for existence, you must begin with God, for you (we) born by His purpose and for His purpose.
We didn't create ourselves, for that, only the creator (inventor) or user manual (God's word, i.e Bible) can tell the purpose of the creation (the invented).
In these light we be looking at the calling and purpose of Jeremiah as a paradigm for our lives as God own creation with a purpose.
1. The fore- knowledge of Jeremiah birth, (our birth).
God forms us in the womb: God prescribed every single detail of our being. Your (our) birth is not an accidental occurrence. Your (our) parents may not have planned you, but God did. Our birth ( existence) is not a surprise to Him, in fact , he expected it.
Long before you (we) were conceived by our parents, you (we) were already conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you (us) first.
It is not fate, nor chance, not luck, not coincidence that you (we) are breathing at this very moment. You are alive because God wanted (chose) to create you ( us).
No child is birth without God given purpose, assignment in his/her life.
Every man is birthed for a reason, and our life is not without profound meaning, which can be discovered only when we make God the