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Descriptive Essay : ' Godly Purpose '

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GODLY PURPOSE
We only get one chance in this life; we do not know when we will breathe our last breath. Many live a satisfactory life doing something less than what God had planned for them. Others settle for a lot less rather than make the effort required to have the best that God intended for them. In order to get the most out of life, we all need a specific mission or direction: "…like a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls" (Matthew 13:45).
Aimlessness – living life without any purpose – never brings happiness; it leads only to frustration. Yet there are many who care nothing about having a direction or mission in life. These people never experience the joy that a purposeful life offers. When we have godly goals, we tend to avoid many …show more content…

If that 's you, consider yourself lucky!
But most people, even the well meaning, opt instead to fit us into a slot that makes more sense for them. To gain their approval, you willingly slide into the slot. To maintain the approval, you learn to chronically deny who you are.
In too many cases, you live the script for someone else 's life.
You look for a career before you listen for a calling.
Our society has reduced success to a list of boxes to be checked: graduate from school, partner up, have kids, settle into a well-defined career path, and hang on until retirement checks can be collected.
This well-worn path pushes people in the direction of conformity, not purpose.
We 're so busy avoiding self-induced fears of not being [fill in the blank] enough--smart enough, creative enough, pretty enough--that we rarely stop and ask, "Am I happy and fulfilled? And if not, how should I go about changing things?"
Finding your purpose is about listening to an inner calling. In "Let Your Life Speak," Parker Palmer says that we should let our life speak to us, not tell our life what we 're going to do with it.
A calling is passionate and compulsive. It starts as an inkling ("I 'd like to try that") then swells into a mandate that you just can 't shake.
A calling isn 't an easy path, which is why most of us never know it. We fear the struggle, the foolishness, the risk, and the unknown.
So we choose a career because it matches the boxes we 've

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