\u201cI call to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.\u201d Psalm 57:2 CSB
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We all wonder if we have a purpose in life. When things seem crazy around us, nothing seems to be going right, it\u2019s easy to ask the simple question: What is the purpose in all of this? I\u2019m sure Mary thought that when she became an unwed, pregnant teenager. She had no idea her purpose was to give birth to the Savior of the world. An angel appears to her, tells her she will become pregnant and give birth to the \u201cSon of the Most High\u201d (Luke 1:28-33 NIV). I love her reply: \u201cHow will this be,\u201d Mary asked the angel, \u201csince I am a virgin?\u201d (Luke 1:34 NIV). After the angel explains to her exactly how this will happen, Mary gives us a lesson in accepting our purpose in life with these words: \u201cI am the Lord\u2019s servant,\u201d Mary answered. \u201cMay your word to me be fulfilled\u201d (Luke 1:38 NIV).
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Mary didn\u2019t have an easy purpose in life.\u00a0 Joseph, her fiance wanted to kick her to the curb when he found out.\u00a0 Being pregnant ruined her reputation in the community. I\u2019m sure friends and family turned their backs on her. Mary would have been treated as an outcast, she might as well have had leprosy. If God hadn\u2019t sent an angel to Joseph he wouldn\u2019t of married her. The story of her pregnancy is\u00a0 just a few short verses, but to Mary it was her life. It was nine months of living with people whispering about her, accusing her of ungodly things. It was nine months of being judged and outcast.\u00a0 People are mean, religious people even meaner, just look at the Pharisees and Sadducees in the Bible, they lived to make people feel bad. But Mary knew her purpose. She knew she was chosen by God to do something no one else in history can claim, give birth to His Son.
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You and I, we\u2019re like Mary.\u00a0 We have a very special purpose, one that God knows. Our purpose is one that He reveals to us.\u00a0 You may not know what your purpose is like Mary did, an angel may not appear to you with a specific message, but you do have a purpose.\u00a0 We all share one purpose together, the Great Commandment: Love God with all you got, love others as yourself (Mark 12:30-31 NIV). This decree was given by Jesus when He was asked what the most important commandment is for all of us.\u00a0 The Great Commandment is a starting point for finding your purpose. Whoever God places before you, you are to love them to the best of your ability. In order to love people as God intends us too, we have to get that love from Him. We have to put Him first and let Him fill us up, it is the only way we can love others.\u00a0 Our purpose is to love God and love others, it will take a lifetime to complete. If you want to act like you have purpose it’s easy, just love God and whoever He sends your way.
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