"Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life."  

Pastor Rick Warren

We were made to have meaning. This is why so many people try dubious methods, like astrology or psychics, to discover it. When life has meaning, you can bear almost anything; without meaning, nothing is bearable.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. In the Bible, many different people expressed this hopelessness.

Isaiah complained, "I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing." Job said, "My life drags by--day after hopeless day" and "I give up; I am tired of living. Leave me alone. My life makes no sense." The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

Hope is just as essential to your life as air and water.

Dr. Bernie Seigel found he could predict which of his cancer patients would go into remission by asking, "Do you want to live to be one hundred?" Those with a deep sense of life purpose answered yes and were the ones most likely to survive. Hope comes from having a purpose.

God says, " I know what I am planing for you...I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you. I will give you hope and a good future." You may feel you are facing an impossible situation, but the Bible says, "God...is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of-infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes."

Knowing your purpose

• simplifies your life
• focuses your life
• energizes your life
• prepares your for eternity

You were put here to prepare for eternity. Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal. A wiser use of time is to build an eternal legacy.

You were not put on earth to be remembered.

a passage from Pastor Rick Warren's What On Earth Am I Here For?  

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