Ever since Ian and I have been married I have been racking my brain about what my purpose in life is or should be. I have even spent my fair share of time begging or pleading with God to show me what my purpose in life is suppose to be, so Ian and myself can serve him more. It's quit funny how after all of these years of searching, praying, wishing, hoping etc the answer has been right in front of my nose the entire time.
You see my purpose in life is not to be someone's daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend coworker, but to be God's steward and servant. Now I'm not saying I can'r be those other roles, because I love each and every one of them. I'm just saying that my True purpose for existence is to serve my heavenly father, and while doing so be a good steward of the things he has blessed me with.
God created us to love and serve him, Bottom line that is it in a nutshell! Nothing more nothing less! My sweet pastor has spent the first part of this new year talking about stewardship and servant hood and I can tell you it has been really moving and reveling to me about how I view my life in Christ. For a long time I have always thought that being a pastor's wife meant doing things like helping my pastor husband lead a flock of people or leading a women's study or doing things that seem significant within the church body, but I realized that no work is too small, nor the time spend, nor is the dollar spent is too small for God.
You see pastor taught me that the word steward means manager. We are to be good managers of our time, money, family and any other thing or things in our lives that God allows use to have on this earth. With that being said this is where it got deep for me, WE OWN NOTHING! Everything that we "Have" is really God's and not our own! The cloths I wear God's, the house I call a home God's, the books I read, the coach I sit on, the tv I watch etc. Even my precious children our God's, I am blessed and honor to be able to call God's children my own on this earth, and I feel privileged when those babies call me mother. Since I own nothing I am to be a good manager of what God gives me in this life. This has been a hard lesson for me because I'm like most human being, in the fact that I have always wanted a nice fancy home, nice cars, anything that I could earn with the Worldly dollar. But you know what, I'll take Jesus over all of it, because someday I'll have it all. So why try to accumulate things that are not really mine anyways, only to leave them behind later. It seems to me that the equation is simple, invest in God, and everything else will fall into place. So be blessed not stressed because God has this!
