Living a life purpose

When it rains, it pours. I have heard that saying so many times, but there are seasons in life when you truly begin to understand what it means. Sometimes, one thing happens after another. Before you have had time to process one situation, something else comes. Before you have recovered from one blow, another arrives. You barely have time to catch your breath before life seems to knock the wind out of you again. And somewhere in the middle of it all, you find yourself asking: “Lord, how much more?” This has felt like one of those seasons for me. There have been beautiful moments — moments of joy, answered prayers and genuine reasons to give God thanks. There have been reminders of His goodness and evidence of His faithfulness. And yet, alongside those moments have come unexpected pain, difficult news, loss and circumstances I simply cannot make sense of. It is ...

Sometimes things happen that you simply cannot wrap your head around. You cannot understand the why , and the world just seems so unfair. You have just come through one difficult season. You have fought, prayed, waited and finally overcome. You haven’t even had time to breathe, enjoy the moment or celebrate the victory before another challenge comes — another pain, another loss, another reason to ask: “God, why?” In moments like this, the only way I know how to cope is to go back to God. Who am I to you? As I poured out my heart to Him, one question was impressed upon my heart: “Who am I to you?” And my answer was simple: You are my Abba Father. My faithful God. My covenant-keeping God. I may not understand what You have allowed. I may have questions that remain unanswered. I may cry, lament and tell You that this hurts mo...

There are seasons of life that we understand only when we are looking back. While we are living through them, they can feel confusing, painful and uncertain. We ask questions. We wonder what God is doing. We pray for doors to open, circumstances to change and clarity to come. I recently walked through one of those seasons. It began with the ending of a chapter that had been part of my life for a long time. I won't go into the circumstances surrounding that season because the details are not really the important part of this story. What matters is what God taught me through it. “Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” Psalm 27:14 When life doesn't go the way you expected Sometimes an ending arrives differently from the way we imagined. And even when we know that it is time to move forward, there can still be emotions to process. I needed time. Time to think....

“Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.” Deuteronomy 7:9 There are some truths about God that we know in our minds long before we fully understand them in our hearts. We know that God is good. We know that God loves us. We know that God is faithful. But sometimes it takes walking through a difficult season for those truths to move from something we simply know to something we have personally experienced . Deuteronomy 7:9 reminds us of one of the most reassuring truths in Scripture: God is faithful. He keeps His covenant. He keeps His promises. His steadfast love extends from generation to generation. Lately, this truth has become increasingly precious to me. His love is constant God’s love is faithful because it is constant. It does not...

True fulfilment is found in a life centred on God and guided by His purpose. “I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labour, and this was the reward for all my toil. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” Ecclesiastes 2:10–11 We live in a world that constantly encourages us to pursue more, more money, more possessions, more recognition, more pleasure and greater success. We are often made to believe that once we achieve these things, we will finally feel happy, secure and fulfilled. But Ecclesiastes 2:8–11 challenges this belief. In this passage, Solomon describes everything he accumulated and experienced. He had extraordinary wealth, success, entertainment and possessions. He denied himself nothing...