Knowing Your Unique Purpose

We are created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 I was recently at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville. It is an incredible place. They give you a map to find your room - and believe me, you need it! It’s several buildings actually, surrounding massive indoor gardens with small streams and waterfalls. The place is so big that the glass ceiling in the atrium is the size of six football fields. The hotel's exotic plant collection, which takes 20 full-time gardeners to maintain, includes an Asian banana tree . . . right in the heart of Tennessee! This unusual tree grows only one crop of bananas its entire life. Then the team of gardeners cuts it down and plants another. How interesting that God in His wisdom would create a tree designed to serve just one short-term purpose. Unlike trees that bear fruit annually, the Asian banana tree has a unique calling. Your family also has a unique calling. You have been set apart by God to fulfill your own purpose. There are certain values and priorities that define who you are - certain goals you've been created to achieve. These guide the way you spend your time, money and energy. Can you articulate God's purpose for your marriage and family? One of His purposes for Martha and I has been to equip marriages and families with God's blueprints. In addition, we have found that some of His purposes change as we move through the different seasons of a family. Clearly, one of our purposes is to train our children to know God and to equip them to obey Him in life. God does have a unique purpose for each of you as individuals and for the two of you as a couple. Do you know your purposes? Truth@Life can help you, regardless of your location. Call 248-396-6255 or email me at curtis.songer@gmail.com for a free consultation. If you receive value from these blogs, please consider donating to keep this blog site up and running. This ministry cannot continue without the generous donations of its readers. Just click on the "Donate" button in the upper right. For more info on help I can provide check out http://truthatlife.com/ or email me directly at curtis.songer@gmail.com