“Why have I been allowed to experience all that I have? Seen all the things I have seen? What am I supposed to do with it?”
This was the start of my conversation with the Lord today.
As I pondered the questions and waited for the Lord to speak I started flipping through my journal.
What page did I want to use? A blank white page full of room for ink to consume it with words and pictures, or a page that I already put things on?
As I turned through the pages a page with a word from a magazine pasted to it caught my attention.
In big uppercase black letters it read LIFE.
This provoked me to ask what is the purpose of life?
I stared at the word and the Lord started to talk.
So what is the purpose?
To learn. To experience. Then to give away.
To be a student but also be a teacher.
These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give. -Matthew 10:5-8
As believers we are suppose to give away the things we are given, and I believe that this goes deeper than the physical things we have.
Over the last couple of years I have experienced, and learned more than I can comprehend. So what am I supposed to do with it?
Share it with others. Teach them. Then from there trust that the Lord is going to do something big in them with it. And once they have learned from it they can teach it to someone else and so on.
For me this carries more weight than any physical thing I could hand off to someone.
The Lord has allowed me to experience all of these things trusting I would hold them well and utilize them the way He intended them be used.
This life I live isn’t for me and me alone, but to work as a unite with the body of Christ. Each member holding something so special and unique in order as a function as one body. All parts holding purpose.
