After career day in kindergarten a little girl came home all excited and told her mother that she wanted to be a nurse. Her mom went ballistic and said, “You don’t have to be a nurse, this is America, you can be anything you want to be. You can be a doctor, an orthopedic surgeon – you can even be the director of the whole hospital.” She was excited. “I can be anything, anything at all?” Her mom said, “Yes, anything at all!” Her eyes lit up and she exclaimed, “I’ll be a horse!”
You can’t be anything you want to be, you can only be what God has designed you to be. God has designed everyone with a purpose. Without purpose you will become like the funny cars at the circus. They are the cars with the axle off-center; therefore the cars just go around in circles. The clowns get on the funny cars, bouncing along, going in circles, and holding on for dear life. That’s funny at the circus, but life without a purpose—going in circles, hanging on for dear life until you die, a lot of motion but no devotion, –is not funny. There is a lot of activity but no accomplishment. Unfortunately that is the way life can become.
Maybe it’s time for us to determine what purpose we were created for. A history teacher regularly told his class, “You can take this class one of two ways. You can take it seriously or take it over.” We better take life seriously because we don’t get to take it over.
Here is the good news, the bible says in Ephesians 2:10, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” We are God’s masterpiece, made so by Jesus Christ. By necessity a masterpiece is something, someone God has personally put his hands upon, shaped and directed to cooperate with Him in the good He wants to accomplish for our life, in our life and through our life.
Valencia Hills is all about helping you and your family discover your purpose in life. We are here to tell you about the value you have to God, about how much He loves you and how He desires to invest His love and direction into your life. Looking for purpose? Find it at Valencia Hills.
Valencia Hills Community Church meets Sundays at 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. in the gymnasium of Valencia High School. For more information, please call 661-775-1885 and visit www.Valenciahills.com.