As people, purpose can sometimes seem overrated. It's like we can just do good, be kind to people and lead great lives. Why do we have to be burdened about this thing called purpose?

Here's why, because with every time we ignore the real reason we were brought into this world, someone else pays the price, someone else suffers. Purpose is not just that thing you do that offers you personal gratification or fulfillment, it is that thing you do that offers other people freedom, gratification and fulfillment.

I had many questions on my mind as I tried to weigh the juxtapositions of ideologies, cognitive patterns and belief systems in existence all over the world. Vast as my mind is, I have not been able to fathom what informs the decisions of a working conviction plagued by an indescribable ache for fulfillment.  I have not been able to understand why humans, tenacious as we could be, yearn for the easy way out of our storms. Why would destiny choose anyone to go on a wild goose chase for dreams that stand the chance of not being fulfilled? When last did we ask ourselves why we exist? Despite all the confusion the world seems to be dancing in, there still holds one major question

What is life when all that you live for is a shadow in comparison to what your existence aught to mean?

See, purpose is not really about you! Its about two people. First the one who gave you the purpose and second, the one for whom He gave you the purpose. Walk with me.

Let's read from a guy named Rick.

Rick's Testimony

Rick said:

People ask me, what is the purpose of life?

And I respond:

In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.

One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body but not the end of me.

I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity.

This is the warm-up act, the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity.

We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.

Life is a series of problems:

Either you are in one now, OR you're just coming out of one, OR you're getting ready to go into another one.

The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life vainly happy.

We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.

No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.

And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.

You can focus on your purpose, or you can focus on your problems:

If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, which is my problem, my issues, my pain. But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.

We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?

Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purpose for my life?

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better.

God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in ‘what I am’ than ‘what I do’.

That's why we're called ‘human beings’, not ‘human doings.’