The Purpose Driven Life – Day 3

“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” I am always glad to see recovering addicts at Church, those coming to or coming back to Christ. To know they can make a clean break with their past, to choose another direction, one based on a relationship with God to help them navigate life, is uplifting to me. It takes a clean break in a psyche for one to look and realize they are not going down the right path. Maybe they have a catastrophic moment in their life, an arrest or overdose or loss of a loved one to either, and they want to begin again. “God specializes in giving people a fresh start” is a great quote from the book as well. Moses was in fact a murderer and Gideon a coward, but both were brought to greater things through God.

This chapter also explored what drives people, whether through regret, resentment, fear, materialism, or need for approval. I am sure most of us relate to that, maybe even various pieces of it. It then starts driving into the value of purpose and its relationship to passion. Finally, it reminds us when we go to heaven that God will ask us if we accepted Jesus and finally what we did with the gifts he gave us. These are interesting questions to ponder and think through what the answer given would be.