What are your top 3 goals in life? What are your most cherished dreams? What drives you? I was chatting with a friend recently and he told me that he desires to become CEO of one of the biggest companies (name withheld) in West Africa. What a good goal, I said. I then asked him, what happens after you become CEO? What would you use your CEO position to attain? At this point, he became incoherent.
Beloved, what keeps you going? Jesus said in John 4:34 (MSG) – “The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me...” Purpose kept Jesus going. For many believers today, it is materialism, fear of failure, fame, and money (especially) that keeps them going. While we need some material things to fulfil our purpose on earth, we should be careful not to make getting material things our purpose. It’s just like an airplane; it needs tyres to take off and land, but that doesn’t mean that it should hit the expressway because it has tyres.
I strongly believe that every believer is a full time minister. God did not call anyone into part time ministry. II Corinthian 5:18 says every believer has been called into the ministry of reconciling men to God. We are all wired for full time ministry. It’s just that our platforms and mode of operation are different. To the pastor, it may be the pulpit. To the evangelist, it may be the remote areas. To the sportsman, it may be the stadium. To the senator, it may be the national assembly. To some, their platform is their place of work, while to others, it may be a school. Just as we do not see ourselves as part-time worshippers of God because we are not choristers, we should never have mindsets of part-time-ministry just because we are not pastors. If it is not in your priority to support the reconciliation of men to God on whatever platform God has given you, then you are failing the priority test. If your topmost dream is not connected to how God wants us to impact our generation as revealed in the bible, then you need to get back on track.
– Tope Aladenusi
Excerpted from Today’s Lifeline magazine (Vol.2 No. 5): 5 ways to know if you are living a purposeful life
