I am in a season of transition. I have just resigned my position at come2go ministries in Fort Wayne, IN and I am getting ready to enter into something new. I just don’t know what the “new” thing is yet. It’s like I’m 2 steps away from a hard right hand turn. I know I have to make the turn to stay on the path, but I have no idea what’s around the corner.

I am also in a season of discernment, which almost always comes with transition. I’ve been thinking and praying a lot about God’s ultimate purpose for my life. I’ve always lived with a strong sense of destiny. I know that I am created for a purpose that I’m uniquely prepared for in giftings, talents, personality, experience & passions. I have something inside that drives me towards accomplishing that which I was created for. There have been seasons in my life where I thought I knew what that purpose was. But I’ve never felt the intense longing I do now to hear from God about it. I’m ready for the hard right hand turn.

We have many Biblical examples of people who knew their purpose. To me the greatest example, besides Jesus, was John the Baptist. John may have been obscure, living in the desert with weird clothing and a weird diet, but he was famous. Mark 1 says “the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him”; John the Baptist was a household name. Click to continue »