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What to Do When You've Lost Your Sense of Purpose

What to Do When You've Lost Your Sense of Purpose

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 Purpose doesn't always disappear because of a crisis. Sometimes it just fades when a chapter ends. In this episode, discover what Esther 4:14 says about timing, calling, and what God tends to do at the moment you think you're finished.Sharon Stevens was a hairdresser and a single mother in Louisville, Kentucky. One morning she sat down with her coffee, opened the newspaper, and read about a widower trying to raise 2 daughters alone while they waited for a liver transplant they couldn't afford. She couldn't eat after that. She couldn't sleep. She described it later as a true calling.She had no credentials for what she was about to do. She walked into a stranger's life and spent the next year raising tens of thousands of dollars and lining up corporate jets until an entire city was behind her. On January 17, 1994, in the middle of the worst snowstorm Louisville had seen in decades, hundreds of people showed up with shovels and snow plows to clear a helicopter landing pad by hand so a little girl named Michelle could make it to her transplant.Michelle lived. She graduated from college, got married, and went to work with children in the medical field. Sharon said afterward: "I'm just an ordinary person. If I could do it, anyone can."She didn't set out to find her purpose. She just couldn't put down a newspaper.Most of us who've lost our sense of purpose are looking for something bigger than a newspaper story. We're waiting for the vision, the clear sign, the feeling that used to come when what we were doing felt significant. But Sharon's story and Esther 4:14 point in the same direction: purpose tends to arrive as a pull toward something in front of you. The plan tends to become clear as you move.This episode is for the person who has finished a chapter without the next one starting. The kids moved out and the career leveled off. The project ended. And now you're sitting there wondering what you're supposed to do with yourself. That loss is there, and it doesn't look like grief from the outside. But it is grief.Through Sharon's story and the pointed question of Esther 4:14, this episode makes the case that God has a pattern of giving people their clearest sense of purpose at the exact moment they thought they were finished. Moses was 80 at the burning bush. Anna was 84 and still showing up to pray. God was not done with either of them.He's not done with you either.BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:Why losing your sense of purpose often feels more like boredom than grief, and why that distinction mattersWhat Esther 4:14's "for such a time as this" reveals about how God thinks about timing and callingOne specific question to bring to God today that tends to move purpose from abstract to concretePurpose tends to find you when you're doing the next faithful thing. Searching for the feeling rarely brings it back.Share This Episode:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/232Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemailWant to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast.https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/Rate and Reviewhttps://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/Connect with BartFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylivesWebsite: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.comFeeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus here.Mentioned in this episode:Join Our Private Facebook CommunityIf you're looking for a place to connect with other Daily Devotions listeners and pray for each other, I'd love for you to join our private Facebook community group. Come find us at https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/group
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