A Purpose

August 13-14

Pulling into our garage I was elated to finally be using it for its designed purpose. For the past eight years it had been a storage unit and not a place to shelter our car. While it functioned fine as a place to keep extra furniture, it is delightful to get into a car which is not boiling hot from sitting in the sun or to experience a soaking from summer thunderstorms entering and exiting the car. (The walls are still piled high with storage items, so a dual purpose has prevailed.)

Many lives are being lived without fulfilling their God given purpose. They are functioning just fine, day in and day out, setting their own goals and seeking their own pleasures. The idea of intimate fellowship with a Creator may not be part of the upbringing process, but God still finds a way to knock on the door of our hearts. His ways are not our ways, but his ways are to prosper us and give us a hope and a future...an eternal future. (Jeremiah 29:11)

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 19:21

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10