Life is hard, and most of struggle with finding a sense of purpose and fulfillment in life. We work jobs we take no joy in and find more stress than happiness, and we ask God what His plans for us are and why we are here.

God has created us with passions, talents, skills and gifts. Some of us are walking in those right now, and some of us can’t find how to walk in those in a way that will provide for our families or God has not opened that door telling us to wait with patience.

Men and women all over the world feel lost, depressed and scared, wandering without a sense of purpose to life. It gets hard, this life is hard, and harder still when we wander with no sense of purpose.

Truthfully we were each created with a purpose, we have a heavenly creator, a good Father who made us each to fulfill a purpose in life. Some of us find that purpose early on, we know what we were made for, others of us struggle for years and wrestle to understand.

I have spent years with trying to fight through this life to uncover what God made me for, not a lost sense of I am an accident, I know I have a Heavenly Father who loves me, but I have never been able to find the purpose He has for my life.

I have seen many stories lately of people who have found their God given purpose, whether a calling they have known from a young age, or one they stepped into as a young adult. I have come to have people in my life who recognize not only God’s calling, but see the talents as well, and how they all tie in.

Often, God’s plan and purpose will require the talents he blesses us with, and sometimes it takes finding the right people to believe in you and pour into you, to water and grow those gifts so you can walk out the purpose of your life.

There is no one simple method for discovering your purpose, for we each have our own path to walk. For some of us, we know as a child, others we find it as a young man, and some struggle and fight for years through our adulthood, but I would urge you, if you are struggling to find your purpose, prayer this simple prayer.

God, what is the purpose you have for me? Is there anywhere I am believing something untrue about you? Am I not submitted to your Will or is there anywhere in my life I am holding on to my plan over yours? God, let it not be about what I want from you, but what you want from me. Help me to fully surrender to you. To fully surrender to your plan, your purpose, the reason I am here. What is you would have me do today, and every day after? Let my life be a life submitted to your will. Amen.