The One Thing
JEREMIAH 33:3
Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.
One day a man visited his doctor because he was in excruciating pain. The doctor asked him, “Where does it hurt?” “All over,” the man answered. The doctor told the man to touch his shoulder. The man touched his shoulder and cried out in pain. Next, the doctor told the man to touch his forehead. The man touched his forehead and cried out in pain again. The doctor told the man to touch his knee. The man touched his knee and winced in pain. He said, “Doctor, everywhere I touch, I’m in pain.” The doctor thoroughly examined the man and concluded, “No wonder you are in pain everywhere you touch—you have a dislocated finger!” We may laugh at the man’s ridiculous situation, but many of us do the same thing in a different way. We feel like everything in our lives is wrong, yet in fact just one thing is wrong—and that one thing affects everything. This one thing is that many of us are living a life without purpose. We are simply going through the motions—existing day by day, weighed down by the emptiness of a life without meaning.
Purpose is not measured by comparing what you have done to what someone else has done but by comparing what you have done to what you are supposed to do. The only way to know your purpose is to experience and walk closely with the One who has created and destined you for it. If you are a Christian, you do not need to try to discover your purpose. Rather, it is in experiencing God that your purpose will be made known. Experience God, and you will experience your purpose. Know God, and you will know your destiny. I call to You,
Father, and ask that You will answer me. I ask that You will show me the great and mighty things that I do not yet know. Mark my steps according to Your divine will for my life.
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