How Do You Find Your Purpose?

Your purpose should be balanced with your desire to achieve true success. Desire means, to long for or to crave.

D – DESPERATE NEED. Desire is something that’s deeply longed for, a desperate need.  There’s a story a young man who came to, Socrates, and said that he wanted to be his pupil. So, Socrates took him down to a lake that was near by and they walked in.  He shoved the young man’s head under the water and he held it there. The boy waited thinking he would pull him back up, but he didn’t. So, he tried to raise his head and the teacher kept his head down in the water. He started struggling and struggling and the teacher finally let him up out of the water gasping and choking for air. The teacher looked at him and said, “When you desire knowledge and understanding as deeply as you desired to get air right now, then you’ll be ready to learn.” 

E – EMPTINESS BEING FILLED.  Psalm 63 says, “O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.” What a great mental picture.  He “thirsts” for God, like in a desert where there is no water, with a deep and passionate thirst. That’s filling emptiness.  When you’re talking about desire, you’re not talking about satisfying surface things. You’re talking about reaching down deep and looking deep inside of you.

S – SENSUAL EXPERIENCE. I’ll bet you didn’t expect that one. The reason I put it this way is because the sexual emotions are some of the most powerful emotions that we have. It’s actually one of the definitions for desire – a passionate, ardent, craving for. So, I put down “sensual experience” so that you could understand what this really should feel like. This desire should stir you up, it should stir in you those kinds of feelings.

I – IDENTIFY WITH IT. It’s got to be something you identify with. It can’t be something that somebody else picked for you. It can’t be something that you should be doing or something that you have to do. It has to be for your reasons. Something that is extremely meaningful to you in your life.

R – REACH NEW HORIZONS WITH IT. This refers to the concept of growth and expansion. We need to have desires that help us grow and expand. We need to have desires that push us to the limit of our skills, abilities and talents. 

E – ENERGIZES YOU EACH TIME YOU THINK ABOUT IT. You have to have something that energizes you each time you think about it. It gives you life. It’s something that when you focus on it, when you put your mind on it and really think about it, it stirs you and gives you energy.   

Biblically when you talk about the word “zeal” (the good kind, not the fanatic kind) you are talking about desire and passion.

Have a prosperous day,

Richard Hackworth

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