Purpose: Who Are You?

Knowing who you are is a key to living a fulfilling life. Until you know who you are, you will not be able to identify your talents and deploy yourself effectively. If you don’t deploy yourself, others will employ you. If you do not brand yourself, others will brand you and make you into their own image.

Nobody is an accident. We are all on this planet for a purpose. Nobody is a nobody. We all have something to offer our generation. That is why we are all unique. No two people on the planet have identical DNA, finger prints and voice prints etc. We are all wonderfully and beautifully crafted by God Almighty. We are not mass produced, but uniquely custom built.

There is a reason and a purpose for each of our individual lives. Nobody is useless or purposeless. It is our duty to find out why we were born before we die. Like without purpose is like an aimless rigmarole. Like a jigsaw puzzle that forms part of a giant picture, we will always remain a misfit until we locate our slot.

You may acquire all the outer trappings of success and affluence, you may even be a role model worshipped by millions. you may have it all, but be dying on the inside. Life will lose all meaning, and sometimes, suicide is not far away…

Every being has a purpose, including plants, animals and inanimate things.

Dr Myles Munroe in his book “In Pursuit of Purpose” gives a beautiful analogy. A manufacturer determines the purpose of his product before ever starting work on product development and design. He decides what the product is to do, how it does it and builds into the product the ability to achieve purpose.

He uses uses an electric fan for his analogy. The purpose is simply to cool. The how is by circulating air thereby producing a cooling effect. To circulate air, fan blades are designed and mounted at a certain angle such that when they are rotate, they force air forward. To rotate, an electric motor is in-built into the fan assembly.

As the manufacturer goes through the product development, design and testing phases, he has the purpose firmly in his mind. To cool. Purpose drives all the process, from product development to testing. Aesthetics is by the way. It the fan does not cool, then it is not ready for release to the market place. Purpose is the main parameter, as the fan undergoes final testing. Without purpose, the fan is as good as useless. Everything is on hold until purpose is achieved

By the time the press release goes out to announce a new product launch, the fan would have been certified fit for purpose, to cool. The ability to achieve purpose has been in-built into the fan. The fan does not have to try any stunt to produce the cooling effect. It was designed to cool. It was equipped to cool. It was tested and found fit to cool. It was born to cool. End of story.

Even if nobody else does, believe in you.

As the fan has a purpose before being, so are we on this planet. There is a plan and a purpose at the back of the mind of our Creator before He released us for touch down on planet earth. Your purpose is in-built. If purpose is not known, abuse (abnormal use) is inevitable. One can never find true and lasting fulfillment outside of purpose. You will be like fish out of water. An aquarium is a sad replica.

What is your purpose?

Who are you?

Until you know who you are, you can never be who you were born to be…