Your purpose is no secret or hard to find. God Word tells us our purpose. To know God, to Grow in Christ, to Serve God and Others and to Share God.
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Dont give up for we all have fallen short of the glory of God. We was set free in Christ, redeemed from past, present and future sins. No longer a slave to death or sin.
Romans 3:23-24
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
But in warning Paul reminds us in Romans 6 that growing in Christ should produce fruit as this Luke 9:23 involves us to carry our crosses daily.
Romans 6
Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
6 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
Luke 9:23
23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
We as believers must wrestle with the flesh and and let the Holy Spirit guide us. When we fall short and find ourselves in sin. We must not let us enslave ourselves and trap us. As this is what the evil one wants. Scripture calls us to repent, correct your relationship with God and move on to the production of fruit.
Matthew 3:8
8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
Rather it be trials, persecution, or the consequences of sin that brings us suffering we must remember that in all circumstances God can work with us to bring about Kingdom good if we surrender and let it be thy will be done and not my will, will be done.
Romans 8:28
28 We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.
The suffering you have experienced in life is in many ways God working in the situation for good. Your like a diamond in the rough, dirty, hidden and in less the right person knows what to look for, your just another rock. But in the eyes of the right person they know how precious you already are and has a plan and purpose for you. So the finder shapes you and polishes you until you are perfected by the hands who first sought you.
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Romans 5:3-5
3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
God knows you and first seeked you. God knew the imperfections and future failures. All you had to do was respond and believe He could shape you in His image. This shaping produced preserverance, character and hope.
His grace is greater than our failures and we are perfected in Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:9 New International Version (NIV)
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
Live into your purpose, your identity as a child of God. Your past is the past and live free in Christ. You are precious in His eyes for He bleed and died for you. For anything told to the believer that is already written down we are told to abide in Him. The time is now until death that we act on the Words of God. Know, Grow, Serve and Share. This is our purpose and this is our calling.
God bless you and Welcome.
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