Living on purpose is the path to peace. Isaiah 26:3
Everyone's life is driven by something.
- To drive is to guide, control, direct.
- People are driven by problems, pressures or deadlines. A painful memory, haunting fear or unconscious belief. Circumstances, values, and emotions can drive our lives.
Sadness, regret, feeling purposelessness. Great men of the Bible have felt this: Isaiah 49:4; Job 7:6,16
Yet God has a plan for our lives; Jeremiah 29:11; Eph 3:20;
Focus life on what God wants for us: Proverbs 13:7; Isaiah 26:3; Eph 5:17; Phil 3:13; Romans 14:10,12
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life: John 14:4
Thoughts:
This question reminds me of a dream I have that happens when big life change is happening.
"A lifetime of preparation for an eternity of service" (Ministry makes a difference ONLY when people follow Jesus Christ)
Two questions God will ask everyone:
1. What did you do with my Son, Jesus Christ?
2. What did you do with what I gave you?
Prayers emphasizing God over trials leads to salvation, hope, faith and joyful love.
What would my family and friends say is the driving force of my life? What do I want it be?
- Christian, husband, church-goer
- Love God, love others
Everyone's life is driven by something.
- To drive is to guide, control, direct.
- People are driven by problems, pressures or deadlines. A painful memory, haunting fear or unconscious belief. Circumstances, values, and emotions can drive our lives.
- Guilt can make us restless wonders on earth like Cain (Gen 4:12), but what a relief for those whose guilt is forgiven (Psalm 32:1)
- Resentment and anger hurts us more than the other person, the Bible says "to worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do" (Job 5:2 TEV)
- Fear can be a result of traumatic experience, unrealistic expectations, growing up in a high-control home or genetic predisposition. It is a self-imposed prison keeping us what God intended. The Bible says, "well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life - fear of death, fear of judgment - is one not yet fully formed in love." (1 John 4:18 MSG)
- Materialism, the desire for more to be happy, important, secure. Self-worth and net worth are not the same. Nothing matters more than knowing God's purposes for your life, and nothing can compensate for not knowing them.
- Approval, the expectation of parents, spouses, or children or friends or teachers control us. Peer pressure, following the crowd, being control by the opinion of others. Jesus said, "no one can serve two masters." (Matt 6:24 NLT)
Sadness, regret, feeling purposelessness. Great men of the Bible have felt this: Isaiah 49:4; Job 7:6,16
Yet God has a plan for our lives; Jeremiah 29:11; Eph 3:20;
Focus life on what God wants for us: Proverbs 13:7; Isaiah 26:3; Eph 5:17; Phil 3:13; Romans 14:10,12
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life: John 14:4
Thoughts:
This question reminds me of a dream I have that happens when big life change is happening.
"A lifetime of preparation for an eternity of service" (Ministry makes a difference ONLY when people follow Jesus Christ)
Two questions God will ask everyone:
1. What did you do with my Son, Jesus Christ?
2. What did you do with what I gave you?
Prayers emphasizing God over trials leads to salvation, hope, faith and joyful love.
What would my family and friends say is the driving force of my life? What do I want it be?
- Christian, husband, church-goer
- Love God, love others
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