Finding Your Why Will Light a Fire In Your Soul
Do you know your purpose in life? Why you do what you do? Are you eager to start each day?
Finding your why will light a fire in your soul.
This morning for our together devotions, we read some obscure Exodus scripture. My husband said it didn’t really speak to him.
So we looked at it more closely.
And got inspired. These weren’t just parchment Bible-page-filler words. These words had meaning for us in the now. We just had to look a little closer; search a little deeper.
The passage we read was about 2 men in the Bible I’d never heard of. And can’t spell or pronounce their names.
However, these two men found their why.
They were born with the potential to develop their why. Even though we didn’t remember them, they filled a significant place in The Master’s Plan. When God needed them, kaboom. They became pros at what the Lord called them to do. A work that required precision and beauty. When the Lord called, they were men of the hour.
Likely they got up early every morning even before they were called to work on God’s project.
The Lord assigned work for special parts of the building of the Tent Tabernacle in the wilderness.
They could have said, “What’s the big deal about a Tent Tabernacle? It’s not a permanent structure, we have to pull it down and move it around, why should we go to all this extreme and precise effort?”
But they had a why. They were doing God’s work, and that motivated them. They accepted that they were the ones God chose to complete this work on the Tent.
These men were given a major why.
And a whole lot of reasons to get up early and start having fun (work – same thing).
If you know your why, what you do for work will be your fun.
If your purpose is God centered, and you do your work because it’s the right thing to do, it will be more fun than work.
I love this quote:
“What is your purpose? Write down your purpose. Carry it with you everywhere. Feel it deep, and promise yourself every day you will live your purpose with zero excuses.
…Your purpose is that one thing that lights you up. It’s the one thing that will get you up early. That one thing that when you’re doing it, time stops.”
“What is Your Why?” by Fearless Motivation
When you know your why,
work and fun are the same thing.
Your why might not be huge or make you rich or famous.
But it will make you eager to “get up early” every morning.
It will “light you up.”
For me, art and writing are the things that make time stop. I can go for hours, until I suddenly realize it’s lunch time, and I haven’t had breakfast. I haven’t stopped for a sip of water. Photoshop is open with multiple scans of artwork, and I’m melding them all together into a calendar. Or a recipe binder. Or a greeting card.
My personal why is to create
- for the happiness of others
- to share the beauty I find in the world around me
- to put what I feel into words or art, even inexpertly
- to encourage others to pursue their why with a full-on effort
