The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I here For?

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.
We were
made to have meaning. This is why people try dubious methods,
like astrology or psychics, to discover it. When life has meaning,
you can bear almost anything; without it, nothing is bearable.
A young man in his twenties wrote, “I feel like a failure
because I’m struggling to become something, and I don’t even
know what it is. All I know how to do is to get by.
Someday, if I discover my purpose, I’ll feel I’m
beginning to live.” 
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.”
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Job said, 
“My life drags by—day after
hopeless day”
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and 
“I give up; I am tired of living. Leave me alone.
My life makes no sense.”
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The greatest tragedy is not death, but life
without purpose.
The Purpose-Driven Life
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DAY THREE:
WHAT
DRIVES
YOUR
LIFE?

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Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope
to cope. Dr. Bernie Siegel 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.
If you have felt hopeless, hold on!
Wonderful changes are going to happen in
your life as you begin to live it on purpose. God
says, 
“I know what I am planning for you. . . . ‘I have
good plans for you, not plans to hurt you. I will give you hope and a
good future.’”
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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.”
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