“See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God.” 1 John 3:1
“For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them.” Ephesians 2:10
Ever wonder what your purpose is in life? Have you asked God what He created you for – what your purpose is?
Over five years ago, I found myself asking that very question. My life felt very numb. I thought I had a purpose but wasn’t sure what it was. I remember praying, asking God what my purpose was. A few months later, I was asked to be involved in a new ministry in the church, which was a catalyst in my relationship with God. On the surface, I thought the invitation to start the new ministry was God answering that question and leading me to a purpose of being more involved in the church. What I realized through the events in my life that followed and through my growing relationship with Him in my faith and through the foundation I was establishing in the Church, that the answer God was revealing to me was that my purpose was to receive His love.
Today that message is so vivid as I look upon the ashes in my life, the chains I have broken. With those chains, I could not receive the LOVE of God in its entirety. I had to release my past, my feelings of rejection, fear, not being good enough, and not being loved. Today, those ashes of my past have revealed a love so great that I know my purpose and it is a very simple purpose – TO RECEIVE THE LOVE OF MY HEAVENLY FATHER. There were things in my past that prevented me from being able to receive His love. When I cried out to Him over five years ago, He placed me on a path to see that my purpose was simple – allow myself to be loved by Him.
Everything else freely falls from accepting God’s love. Fulfilling His Will becomes incredibly easy once we embrace this love by living it, breathing it, tasting it, giving it to others and receiving it from others.
Have you opened your heart to receiving the LOVE of God, completely? Do you have walls or chains preventing you from receiving this immense love? Perhaps you have some unforgiveness buried deep within your heart that is building a dam from this life giving water of love? Perhaps you are hanging on to a lie that you aren’t good enough to receive it? Whatever your story may be, your past, place them in the fiery pit and let the ashes be swept away by the breath of the Holy Spirit as you embrace the greatest gift in your life, a gift of LOVE that your Heavenly Father wants to give you because you are His child and nothing can take that away.
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