If you want purpose, you must leave behind the idea that any other person can give it to you. True, fulfilling, purpose only comes from the Creator. He alone knows the fullness of possibility within you.
The world would start the statement above the same as I did, but would insist that “the Creator” should be replaced with “yourself.”
How small would our world be if we depended solely on the knowledge we have of ourselves to inspire us? God, who made us, holds the key to greater depths of ability, energy, creativity and knowledge that He’s already placed within us. No matter how enlightened we become, we cannot unlock this vast beauty without the Holy Spirit’s active participation in the shaping of raw nature God began at our unfolding.
He is not simply an Author, the creative source of our story, He is also a Finisher. He smooths us to perfection and works over us and in us until we are gloriously refined.
No one, not even our dearest and deepest of friends can measure that depth within us, scale the steeps of our souls in darkness and bring out the gems that are within. No one. Christ alone has proven Himself able to withstand the oppressive chasm of death and hell, and knows what it means to break open the door between life and death. He offers us this power, with the promise of the Father, that no man shall be without hope of fullness. Making alive what was dead, the Holy Spirit within lightens the darkness and gives shape to our void in ways we never imagined.
I am so glad to be His. I am in constant expectation of what great thing He can become in the small vessel that is me.
Amen.