Purpose Driven Life

The Purpose Driven Life is a book to help us ponder and find out what on earth am I here for.

This is a book I have for years and I had always only manage to read the first few chapters. Until yesterday night. There was something in me giving me the sudden urge to read this book again and really understand the meaning behind it.

Reading this gives me a huge comfort and help in filling up the emptiness in my soul. As written in the book, 'without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless'. When life has a meaning, you can bear almost anything; without it, nothing is bearable.

This is a poem by Russell Kelfer :

You are who you are for a reason.

You're part of an intricate plan.

You're precious and perfect unique design,

Called God's special woman or man.

You look like you look for a reason.

Our God made no mistake.

He knit you together within the womb,

You're just what he wanted to make.

The parents you had were the ones he chose.

And no matter how you may feel,

They were custom-designed with God's plan in mind,

And they bear the Master's seal.

No, that trauma you faced was not easy.

And God wept that it hurt you so;

But it was allowed to shape your heart

SO that into his likeness you'd grow.

You are who you are for a reason,

You've been formed by the Master's rod.

You are who you are, beloved,

Because there is a God!

God loves us so much that He can't bear to see us being hurt. But He knew that we are stubborn and lots of time we are so occupied with things we thought far more significant than He were therefore God allowed us to face trauma and pain. But at the same time He wept with us and He never left us alone to walk this road.