The Purpose Myth

God never asked us to chase after Purpose, He asked us to chase after HIM.

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Almost everywhere the Bible alludes to Purpose, it speaks of God’s Purpose, not OUR purpose. The purpose for each season will be different, and if we stay stuck on the fact that we’re meant to be “following purpose”, we’ll find it difficult to be flexible when the seasons change.
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What if your purpose is to study Medicine... then you end up in film and media?
What if your purpose is to work in media... then you end up as a politician?
Why are you the measure for God’s abilities?
Why can’t God’s Purpose be more complex than we can ever understand?
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Constantly second-guessing ourselves and constantly striving to follow purpose makes us focus on “works”, believing that it is what we do or how well we do it that determines where we are in God; but where we are in God has already been determined by Him.
He has “... seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus...”
(Ephesians 2:6 ESV)

So we’re not living our lives, we’re living His Life, by His Rules, in His Way, according to His Purpose.
Not.
Ours.

“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
(Galatians 2:20 ESV)

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The idea of finding our purpose is weighing so many of us down with religious pressure and killing our intimacy with God.
Listen: you can’t do anything to deserve God’s love, and you can’t do anything to lose God’s love, either. Follow Him day by day — that’s your only purpose, and that purpose is more than enough.

“... tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
(Matthew 6:34 ESV)