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“Purpose is to life what the skeleton is to the body. The muscle may have strength, but it needs support and attachment.” -Ravi Zacharias
Our pursuits need a supporting structure. Without a supporting structure, life drifts. Without purpose, affections and ‘emergencies’ and people-pleasing define our life. We move from one affection to another, from one emergency to another, from one people-pleasing activity to another – without an ultimate purpose.
Purpose provides the needed supporting structure. Instead of randomly moving from one thing to another, our activities and affections and pursuits attach to our purpose.
In Ravi’s quote above, he suggests we can muscle our way through life, but without support and attachment to a purpose, we drift through life.
We’ve all been there. I’ve been there. We find ourselves questioning what we do, doubting our motives, wondering what’s it all about. I experience that at times even with a life purpose. But, it’s that life purpose that I go back to. When I take the time to evaluate, to ponder, to plumb line my pursuits against that life purpose, life stops drifting. Life becomes focused, meaningful, purposed.
It may mean I stop doing some of the things I’m doing. It may mean stop listening to lies that I hear coming at me from within. It may mean a conversation with a close friend to help discover if what I’m doing or pursuing is an alignment with my purpose.
It all comes back to purpose providing that supporting structure. If what I’m doing isn’t somehow attached to that purpose, then it needs to go.
How do you continue to live life with purpose?
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