Finding the purpose in our lives can be difficult. We always rely on what we can do with our own abilities and talents. We rely on where we grew up, what family we are part of, and our education to guide us through life.
Even though those traits play a vital part and are part of the purpose of our lives, we may not always know what to do with them without God’s guidance.
Let’s look at a few examples of talents and abilities that God gives people that can be used for the wrong thing:
- Put the right tools in the hand of a carpenter and he can build just about anything he can dream of. But putting the same tools in the hands of the wrong person can cause more harm than good.
- God has given many people amazing singing voices. However, some use their abilities to write and sing songs with the wrong messages that honor the devil instead of God who gave them the gift in the first place.
- Some men are given great wealth and prestige. Some build great towers for their own glory and not for God who the glory should be given to.
How should we use our God given gifts and abilities? We have an excellent example to follow: Jesus.
Though Jesus was God as man in the flesh, He did not do anything in His own authority (John 8:28).- Jesus only spoke what His Father spoke (John 8:38).
- Jesus honored the Father with His own life (John 8:49).
- Jesus was on this earth doing the work of His Father (John 10:37).
- Jesus came to represent his Father and so the world would know what the Father was like (John 14:7)
- Jesus was the image of the Father and He was in Jesus (John 14:10).
- Anything you ask in Jesus’s name, He will do so His Father is glorified in the Son (John 14:13).
- Jesus can call us friends (John 15:15).
Jesus was baptized at the River Jordan as a man and the Holy Spirit came upon Him. He could chose to ignore His reason for being here or to make Himself an idol without God. Jesus lacked nothing, but He knew that doing God’s will was the best option available and chose to do this. Jesus knew He was born to die a sinless man and to pay the price to restore the human race to the first state that Adam lived in (1 Corinthians 15:27).
Sin entered the world through one man named Adam. Adam brought death through sin. In Adam, we all die spiritually because he chose to sin (1 Corinthians 15:22). Because of Christ, we are alive because Jesus was willing to hear from the Father and willingly obey Him. Jesus adopted an ear to 
hear God. That was Jesus’s secret: an ear to hear God and obedience just followed.
What about us? Have we made the choice to willingly adopt an ear to hear God’s voice and the written word of the Bible? Jesus was and still is the model to follow in all we do. We may miss some boxes some days, but we must be willing to make adjustments in our lives to hear the message God has for us through the Holy Spirit. Your journey will take a new meaning full of God’s voice and adventure. At the end of your life you can look back and say you walked with God and you can be the role model for other people to see how to do the same.
The final word is Jesus chose to hear his Father’s voice and to pay the price with His own life so that we may have a future with God for eternity. He gave His life so we can live forever. He was born so others, like you and me, can live obedient lives following God. Follow Jesus’s pattern and hear God’s voice. Serve God until our last days on this earth and advance God’s kingdom so others can experience life in Christ. Remember that you were born to hear God’s voice so others can live.
Unless you think you have a better plan for your life.
The Son of man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom (a payment for sin) for many (Matthew 20:28).
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