It all starts with God (day 1 of 40 Days of Purpose)

"It is not about you."

In this world everything these days is about me: How do I look? How do I succeed? How do I find a mate? How do I find a good Job? How do I find the right career? How do I find the purpose for my life? Where do I start?

We live in a Pick'n'Mix reality of anything and everything. All our choices are based upon what is good for me - or for my family at best. But we did not create ourselves. God planned and blessed our lives even before our conception. He created me for His purpose.

I can make my own plans, my own decisions and own life. But the purpose of my life, God planned long ago, even before my mother and father knew each other.

"Everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him" (Col 1:16b, the Message)

40 days of Purpose - Purpose Driven Life

I have read Rick Warren's Book: A Purpose Driven Life before but never managed to do all 40 days. Now is the time to reach that goal. So from today I am restarting that project.

I will be blogging on each chapter hopefully posting something every day. Actually I want to end this on Easter Sunday. 38 days away from today (including today). Thus I need to do 2 double stints along the way.

The first line of the first day states "It is not about You". This is both scary (at least to someone like me) and reassuring at the same time. If it was all about me, then I would have to work my way to the doors of heaven. Which is nigh on impossible. But now that it is about God, I can put all my trust in Him. Because He will not fail, even when (not if) I will fail, dishonor or abandon Him. He was here before me and will be with me, and he will be here, when my time is up.

The first post on chapter/day one will be published later today!