Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love. Ephesians 5:1-2.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
What is purpose? Purpose is the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. It can be the intention or objective that motivates your actions as well as the reason for your being. Your purpose is what you were made for, what you were made to be. Without purpose, you wander in confusion. With purpose you pursue with focus. Without purpose, life has no meaning and no fulfillment. With purpose, life is meaningful and fulfilling. Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act.
For I know the purpose (machashabah (מַחֲשָׁבָה): thought, plan, purpose, device, intention) that I plan (chashab (חָשַׁב): To think, plan, reckon, account, consider, devise, esteem) for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans (מַחֲשָׁבָה) for shalom and not for evil to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11.
If you pervert the purpose for which something was made it has consequences that affect not just you but generations.
For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. Romans 5:19.
How you pursue your purpose matters, forever.
Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug. Isaiah 51:1.
I am your everlasting rock. I made, do, and think everything for a purpose. And I live that purpose and in Me you do as well for who I am is that purpose and it is the same for you.
Think now. I want to show you your purpose so you can share My joy and your joy be complete.
I made you in My image and according to My likeness, so we have the same purpose and it goes to our very core where the deepest thoughts are of who I AM and that is the image in which you were made.
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27.
Who am I? If you know that you know purpose. You know My purpose and you know yours, for yours matches Mine.
God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. 1 John 4:16-17.
As I am so are you in this world. In My image and according to My likeness your purpose is to be love as I am love. And love gives you joy unspeakable full of glory. Love is the ultimate expression of life. Love gives you joy all the day. And joy is the greatest motivator in your life. Come share My joy! The joy of a fruitful life of love well lived that will never end. Love has no end. Love overcomes sin and grave. Love saves. Love gives. Love forgives. Love rejoices. Love lives.
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created. James 1:18.
Now read the following and you will understand. You cannot walk without purpose and bear fruit that endures.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.
Anything you do without love is contrary to your purpose and to My purpose. Without love you are without your purpose. Without Me, that is, without true love, life means nothing. It withers up and dies.
You know this even physically. A baby that is never held or loved, even though fed and kept clean and clothed, even though no sickness is in its body, turns its face to the wall and dies. It is not in its source. It has no purpose. The same for the neglected elderly. The flame flickers and grows cold.
But what does love look like that you may do everything in, with, and through love? Love is seen in Jesus, the manifestation of My Word in the flesh. You experience love in what He did for you. You are loved and your reaction is to love the One that loved you so greatly that He gave His life for your life to flourish and find your way back to your purpose from which sin had separated you.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. Ephesians 5:1-2.
And how do you walk in love, how do you be your purpose with Me for our purpose is the same. Love. There is no fear, no confusion, no darkness, no perversion of purpose, and no evil in love.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.
Just as I have one purpose in the way I am so it is with all of you. The purpose is love and within love there are so many assignments that must reach all peoples, nations, times and places with their source and their purpose which is only found in Me, your maker, Father, Lord, and Savior, and the One I sent among you who is now in you as your hope of glory.
With all wisdom and understanding, He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ. Ephesians 1:8-10.
Jesus shows you the purpose.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. John 3:16-17.
The plan for your particular assignment, which is unique to you, is not like any others, but the way you live it is with the same purpose.
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. Ephesians 4:14-16.
Not evil but love. Anything done without love has no purpose or power.
Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:8-13.
I love you. This makes life simple, one purpose, plan, reward and power, only what you did with love remains. Love is King of all. Love is the most powerful force there is, for I am love and there is no one and nothing higher than Me. And you are in Me. Love is real.
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life, and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us, what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete. 1 John 1:1-4.