Thursday, July 19, 2012

Stop What You're Doing Right Now!


Stop What You're Doing Right Now!

I mean it!

Os Guinness once wrote about an overachiever with no clear purpose:

“As you know, I have been very fortunate in my career and I've made a lot of money—far more than I ever dreamed of. Far more than I could ever spend, far more than my family needs.” The speaker was a prominent businessman at a conference near Oxford University. The strength of his determination and character showed in his face, but moment's hesitation betrayed deeper emotions hidden behind the outward intensity.

A single tear rolled slowly down his well-tanned cheek. “To be honest, one of my motives for making so much money was simple—to have the money to hire people to do what I don't like doing.”

“But there's one thing I've never been able to hire anyone to do for me: find my own sense of purpose and fulfillment. I'd give anything to discover that”

Life can be long, friends, when you don't know why you're here.

Write down a life mission statement, as Dave Kraft charges in his book“Leaders Who Last” (I also received similar instruction from Ravi Zacharias years ago).

Here are some guidelines:

  1. It should be biblically based
  2. Short enough to put on a t shirt
  3. Impactful enough to last the rest of your life
  4. Stirring enough to compel you each day.

I've been tinkering with mine, I think I have it:

To use the key of creativity to unlock the God-given potential in people.

I encourage you to take some time out today to pray, seek God and write some things down that you're passionate about and how you'd like to make an impact for the Kingdom of Heaven. Then prayerfully work it out. You'll be glad you did.

With God's help, go and do fulfill your purpose!

In Him,

Jean-Marc

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