YOUR HEART AND GOD'S PURPOSE

YOUR HEART AND GOD’S PURPOSE

Josephat S. Hema

The Issue of Gods purpose to one’s life has been a great debate in people’s hearts; many people have been spending a long life moments in searching to understand what exactly they are here on Earth for. This burning question has been a result of many sermons on God’s purpose given by many Pastors and Bible Scholars all around the World; some sermons have been a great help though some can make someone get confused. Famous people like the Late Dr Myles Munroe have written a great deal of helpful books. Pastor Rick warren in his famous book and best selling one called PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE has provided important guides on how someone’s life can be meaningful on Earth.

I would like to share with you this little piece of writing in what God gave me one Sunday morning after a mass, what I supposed to be helpful. That day i had a non-formal discussion with two people, we happened to be talking about Gods purpose for our lives and what it takes to reach the destiny, how do you know your exact purpose? Are all God given purpose get fulfilled? Why some peoples passions get blocked and die on the way leaving them disappointed greatly for a long time? And this last part is what touched me the most, pushed me to find out the precise answer, Thanks to God for his faithfulness. I pray that God through Holy Spirit makes you understand beyond this piece of writing and have effective practices in your life for His glory.

YOUR HEART

The Bible mention the heart as you can talk of the car’s engine, the main controller of ones decisions and hence directions.

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are issues of life

Also in

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, desperately wicked; who can know it?

That means the heart is the most influential factor in ones character, to the extent that it determines one’s life status, it is deceitful and wicked so that it should be well guided. If you don’t keep your heart well, you life will be wicked too.

But the Psalmist gives us the better way of keeping your heart safe and hence live a better life.

Psalms 119:9,10,11,100,105.

GOD’S PURPOSE

God’s purpose for your life is simply why God created you, all what God created you for.

God created us to worship him. That’s supposed to be the centre of our talk. He wanted us to glorify Him through praise, full faith and obedience .So simply God’s main purpose is to glorify him.

However God gave us some assignments to do on Earth that can be observed deductively (generally) and inductively (specifically) from the Bible of which become the main source of our query whenever we discuss about the purpose of God in our life.

Inductive purposes.

1. Increasing

Genesis 1:28

Abraham, Job, Noah, Cornelius. All people.

2. Great commission

Disciples. All people.

Deductive  purposes.

Exodus 31:6

These are somewhat called God callings; they are specific Heavenly assignments, spiritual tasks that a person gets from God and has to fulfill them. a good example of people who got specific purposes are Oholiab&Bezalel,Jeremiah,Samsom,David,Moses,Joseph,Paul,Jonas,Disciples,Mary-Jesus’ mother etc.

However the common thing about all these assignments is the glory of God, peoples should know that whether you know or you don’t know your specific purpose, you should do everything for God’s glory.

Dr martin Luther, a 16^th century church reformer once said that Serving God is like the two hands  of God, whereby the right hand signifies those people serving him in religious matter, people like Pastors and Bishops and the left hand is those people serving him RIGHTEOUSLY in secular activities such as lawyers and political leaders. These people actually do the same thing. So a specific or inductive call should not necessarily be a church oriented activity; only it should be done righteously.

GODS PURPOSE AND YOUR HEART.

There is this close relationship between your heart and God’s purpose in your life. Some people have been driven by their own passions to do somethings, thinking that their passions are real purposes they are supposed to cling in their life. But what God says?

Proverbs 21:2

Every way of man is right in his own eyes; but the lord pondereth the heart.

Gods look into your heart to give your purpose, in Exodus 31:6 he say that He gives skills to wise hearted people. That means when God gives you purpose he provides potential and  the way to make you reach the destination to the fullest, that is why the psalmist says that “I have hidden your word in my heart and then your word is the lamp unto my feet and the light to my path” in

 Psalms 119:100,105.

Therefore to have a straighten way you have to keep a good profile of pure , humble and obedient heart (James 4:10)

Proverbs 3:5-6

Conclusively;

Romans 12:2

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you’ll be able to test and approve what Gods will is; his good, pleasing and perfect will.

As we said earlier about the power of your heart in decision making, the heart happen to control your mind and hence to renew your mind is to purify your heart and not being conformed to the pattern of the World so that you will be able to know Gods wills, that is God’s purposes for your life.

All people mentioned above (most, there are some exceptions) are people who found their purposes by keeping their hearts pure, just that. David was called from the wilderness, having knowing nothing of what was happening back home. Joseph was just a slave, a servant and the prisoner who seemed to be hopeless, the same to young boy Jeremiah and Virgin Mary.

GODS DISCPLINARY FACTORS (HEART FACTORS)

From your heart, God is interested in only two important factors to give you purpose and lead all the way to accomplishments and full Glory for his name’s sake.

1. OBEDIENCE

He gave laws to Israelites(Leviticus 2:23)and commandments(Exodus 20) to assure them of his guide all the way, he gave them clouds in the afternoon and pillars of fire at night to show them right way,for they initially acknowledged him(Proverbs 3:5-6)

He also assured that Joseph’s dreams and visions to reign got accomplished simply because Joseph remained obedient and integrious all the way Genesis 37.

2. FAITH

Much about faith has been spoken in Hebrews 11, God looks upon faith in your heart to give you purpose.

Faith and obedience in some ways seem to intertwine, they seem to be too interdependent, and one can think obedience the result of faith; of which it is the truth but not always.

In Numbers 20

We see that Moses who used to speak with God, no doubt he had much faith; failed to disobey God by striking the rock instead of talking to the rock to provide water for the stubborn Israelites. Moses didn’t reach Canaan, the obvious purposed destination of all Israelites.

DISOBEDIENCE AND UNFAITHFULNESS

Failure to obey and have faith lead to wandering (loss of direction), loss of confidence, lack of peace and confusion and sometimes death on the way. Disobedience and unfaithfulness are sins.

Aarons mistake in Numbers 20:8-12

Israelites unfaithful mistakes in Numbers 14:20-24, 30-33,34,44,Led them into loss of God’s guidance. They wandered and lost many years in the wilderness.At last only two faithful people from Egypt entered Canaan, all the rebels died on the way.

Adams mistake made him coward,Genesis,he got lost from God’s book of purpose as in accordance to Exodus 32:33-“I will blot you out of my book”, that is why in Genesis 3:8,God asked “Adam,where are you?.

LOSING THIS DISCPLINARY FACTORS ON THE WAY HAS BEEN A REASON THAT MANY PEOPLE LIVE UNHAPPY LIFE.LIVING PURPOSELESS LIFE, NOT BEING SURE WITH WHAT TO DO OR NOT HAPPY WITH WHAT THEY DO, OR NOT REACHING THEIR PURPOSED DESTINATIONS.

However God gives a second chance for people who suffer from disobedience and unfaithfulness, this all comes after repentance

Joel 1:12-13

And he says he will repay the years which have been eaten by the locusts.

Joel 2:25

Christians should let Holy Spirit guide them in two important places for them to live their purposes fully;

1. Keeping pure hearts.

2. Maintaining pure hearts.

Without forgetting that

ALL THINGS SHOULD BE DONE FOR GOD’S GLORY.