Dream, Purpose, Success

7/28/2020

Mark 6:45 “And straightway He constrained His disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side.”

Right now in our little family, there is a lot of uncertainty for the future. My husband is looking for his next career step, my son is trying to make his living as an author and entertainer, and I am looking to go back to the office after 5.5 months of working from home. With each one of these endeavors, there comes both dreams of what is to come (in my case, maybe an OCD nightmare), and a sense of achieving purpose. Of course, success is the result of the two. We are all praying, trusting God, and listening for His guidance. All three of us know there are lessons to be learned, not only from our personal uncertainty, but also that of the world at large.

Along with our personal dreams and desires, we are looking for our greater purpose, the path that God has laid out for everyone. However, in the waiting and searching, if we lose sight of God’s ultimate objective for all believers – to spread the truth of the gospel – we will truly never succeed. No matter how much we may accomplish, or how much money we may acquire, at the finish line we will not have ended well.

No matter what looms over us, or how long the race becomes, we must always live for God in every moment He gives to us, not focused on what happened yesterday or what may happen tomorrow, but what is happening right in this very instant. Every day and in all things, God is guiding us in our purpose for Him. Chambers writes: “God’s end is to enable me to see that He can walk on the chaos of my life just now. If we have further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present: if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.”

My prayer during this turbulent time is that we not focus on the past or the future, but be content in all things, in every blessed moment we are given. Life is a treasured gift from God.