The Legacy You're Meant For

Have you ever been somewhere and heard a phrase that just stuck with you?  Sometimes it is a catchy advertising slogan, sometimes it is a team motto, and sometimes it is part of a mission or vision statement.  But no matter what you do, those same few words continue rattling around in your brain, replaying like an old cassette tape (for those of us who still remember those).  Well there has been just such a phrase rattling around in this brain of mine for the past few months, maybe longer.  And as God has left the reality of this phrase simmer in my spirit, it has been life changing.

So what is this phrase that continues to rattle in my brain?  It's a simple phrase really, but its meaning is HUGE.

ON PURPOSE FOR A PURPOSE.

This phrase is part of the common language our youth pastor uses in the youth ministry at our church, and the results of this 5 word phrase are life changing for all who embrace it, youth and adult alike.

How many of us have walked through this life at times wondering what in the world we are supposed to be doing with our lives?  Does what we are doing mean anything?  Are we making an impact, a difference?  Are we doing whatever it is we are meant to do?

Let's face it, these questions don't only hit us growing up, during adolescence, but they hit us as adults, in those moments when we wonder what in the world are we here for?

Well I am here to tell you friends:

 You are here for a purpose, a purpose you alone were created for!

Paul writes in Ephesians 2:10, "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them".

God didn't just randomly create you, but He created you on purpose for a purpose, for good works that He has planned beforehand as part of your story, important things that He has planned throughout the pages of your life for you to do.

Girlfriends, God has a legacy you are meant to leave, lives you are meant to touch, an impact you are meant to make, in the lives of your family, in the lives of you friends and coworkers, in the lives of the strangers whose path you are meant to cross on any given day.  Don't let the enemy rob that from you!

God has knit you together in your mother’s womb for such a time as this.  

So get out there and embrace the legacy God has meant you for!

Living your life on purpose,  for a purpose, the purpose you alone were created for!