Purpose
Have you ever thought of what people think when they see or hear of you?
When you see a bus, you think of transportation; when you spot a phone, you think of communication; when you identify a teacher, you know learning can happen; when you see a doctor, you can tell that there is help for the sick.
People need the bus for transportation, the phone for communication, the teacher for learning, the doctor to recover from illness and you for … I hope you can fill the blank. When you can, your generation has a reason to look for you.
The purpose of a thing is the reason for which it exists. It implies that when you get equipped for your purpose, people will find you when they need the reason for which you are here. You may not know or like a dentist, but when you have an uncontrollable toothache, the best advice you get is to go to the dentist. Why? The dentist got equipped to meet that need. They make themselves available to do just that—help with problems relating to your teeth.
“Many people may like and respect you, but to fulfil the need of people, you require a purpose that people can identify.”
People need you also, but no one will find you until you have found your purpose and intentionally equipped yourself to deliver it. You have gifts, talents, and experiences that could benefit your generation, but you need to harness and develop them to serve effectively.
You will find that people buy bricks when they build. It should not come as a surprise because they get manufactured for that reason. You cannot construct a standard house with biscuits, as sweet or lovely as they may appear—that is not why they produced them. Likewise, a quality life requires bricks of purpose to make a difference.
When you identify your purpose and develop it, you can help meet the need in the lives of many people. Many people may like and respect you, but to fulfil the need of people, you require a purpose that people can identify.
When you need food to eat, you can go to the bakery to get bread, but when you want to build a house, bread cannot replace bricks no matter how much you like the bread, the baker or the bakery. What you need determines what you seek. In other words, it is what you have to offer that determines those that will seek you. It implies that if you do not find what you can offer, you have left the world to wonder what you are here for, and they are not likely to come to you for anything significant.
“You do not have to change who you are; you only need to find out why you are here.”
Let us imagine that you walk to a local store and find a massive colourful item on display which caught your attention. You asked the attendant, ‘Please, what is this item and what does it do?’ The attendant replies, ‘No one knows.’ In this situation where nobody knows the purpose, many will walk away from it because they do not understand what it can or cannot do. If some good meaning people buy it regardless, they are likely to use it for a purpose different from the original intention, which would constitute abnormal use—yes, abuse.
The same is true for many people today—they are not living for the original purpose, not meeting the needs they were designed to meet. You are here for a reason—many people need you because of what you have the potential to do. You are not a mistake but purposefully built to meet a need. You do not have to change who you are; you only need to find out why you are here. Don’t just live; live a life of purpose.
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