A Fixed Purpose

Are you actively living with a powerful purpose, firmly fixed until the end? Or are you still stuck living in the mundane mediocrity of a life that could?

December’s Awakening, Day 12

The longer I live, the stronger becomes my conviction that the truest difference between the success and the failure, between the strong and the weak, between the big and the small man, that separates the boys and the men, is nothing but a powerful aim in life, a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. And no perfect speech or manners, no culture or education, no pull or influence, can make a two-legged creature a man without it.

 —Thomas Buxton

Attempt great things for God, expect great things from God.

 —William Carey

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:10–11 NIV

            Separate yourself from the insignificant, the average, and from the rest of the crowd. To do so requires that you have “a powerful aim in life, a purpose once fixed and then death or victory.” Do you have that powerful aim in life? A fixed purpose unto death or victory, whichever one overtakes you first? That’s a life mission—that’s a life purpose—living out God’s highest aim for your life powerfully, without relenting, either unto victory or death. And God’s Word says that His Word, His purpose in you, will not return void or be for naught—it will accomplish every aspect that He intended.

It’s time to aim powerfully high. It’s time to seek and know His will and purpose for your life and to make it your life’s mission, pursuing it unto victory or death. After all, isn’t that exactly what Christ did for you?