Overflow ON PURPOSE

"Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily, as for the Lord and not for men; Knowing that it is from the Lord that you will receive the inheritance which is your reward. The One Whom you are actually serving is the Lord Christ." – Colossians 3:23,24 (Amplified Version)

We have heard it said many times that we should live life with a purpose - an aim or design with the intention of reaching a specific result. Have you ever given any thought to living life ON PURPOSE? Look for every opportunity that God gives us, not running from it but meeting that opportunity ON PURPOSE.

How many days pass where we miss opportunities to OVERFLOW out of the work that Christ has done in us and to show kindness and love? I'm not talking about just to the people that we love already or that have never hurt us or rubbed us the wrong way, but to everyone we meet. I know ... it's not always easy. We all have those certain someone's in our lives. They might even live with us but if we live our lives ON PURPOSE in obedience to the Word of God ... then we are commanded to make that a part of how we live out each day.

It was not by chance that God sent Jesus to this world to be born of a virgin. He sent Him ON PURPOSE to be our Savior. He came to show perfect love to a lost and dying world. He went to the cross ON PURPOSE out of obedience to His Father so that we could have forgiveness and life. Our gratitude for what He has done in our lives should OVERFLOW our lives and cause us to be living out His purpose ON PURPOSE.

Everywhere Jesus went ... He went ON PURPOSE with the aim of displaying His perfect love and His deity through teaching, healing the sick, raising the dead and calling all people unto Himself.

In Acts chapter 20, Paul, knowing through the witness of the Holy Spirit that imprisonment and suffering awaited him, travelled ON PURPOSE to Jerusalem. He continued from city to city preaching the Word and encouraging the churches in obedience to his calling. It was his desire that he would "finish his course with joy, and through the ministry which he had obtained from the Lord Jesus, faithfully testify to the good news of God's grace."

I believe Jesus wants us to live our life ON PURPOSE with the aim of being a reflection of who He is. We are to show His love to all people out of the OVERFLOW of what He has done in us.

Living our lives with HIS PURPOSES being OUR PURPOSES will allow our lives to OVERFLOW and His love to be seen in us and displayed in everything we do.

Striving to live life ON PURPOSE,
Robin