“Purpose”
When that ball drops in Times Square, there can be a lot of pressure to reinvent ourselves. Your social media feeds will be flooded with ways to become a new version of you. More fit. More productive. More beautiful. More successful.
Hopefully by now you know that God is calling you to something different. We’re not being asked to become someone else. God is inviting us to be intentionally ourselves.
In John’s Gospel we hear that Jesus is the Eternal Word through whom all things were made.
That includes you. You are not an accident. You are not a random collection of experiences, strengths, weaknesses, successes, and failures.
You were spoken into existence by the God who created the stars. Talk about wonder.
Knowing these things about ourselves leads us to a crucial truth. Our purpose is not something that we invent, it’s something that we discover. It’s revealed to us when we follow our shepherd. So, listen to his voice and resist the urge to place your hopes in goals alone. Place your hope in the one who is already leading you.
A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.