Tuesday, May 14, 2019


Live Your Purpose
By Karen D’Amore

“….whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”

The primary focus of the two-day work conference was to educate and equip salon owners and employees with innovative ways to grow their business. With the course material bearing a distinctively “worldly” perspective, I wrestled to find balance between growing my business “their” way…and growing it God’s way. After a two-day immersion in semantics like success….prosperity.…power….and money….I found myself growing resistant to the material and my attention fading. Fortunately, I perked up and re-engaged when one presenter grabbed my attention with the exhortation to... “Live your purpose!”

For days, following the conference, I pondered that exhortation, while questioning… “What is my purpose?” While searching through Scripture, I prayerfully sought God’s perspective on the subject. As I considered our key verse, I recognized that as a Christ-follower, everything  in my life should bring honor and glory to God. So, in my roles as a wife, friend, family member, employee, co-worker…and nail technician…my purpose is to glorify God.

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward” (Colossians 3:23-24, NIV). Relating this Scripture to my position in the workplace, I acknowledged that I need to perform my job as though I’m working for God Himself. With my supervisor expecting each employee to incorporate the conference material into their business plan, I vowed to “live my purpose” by growing my business “God’s way”! I explained to my boss, that if I attempt to grow my business through self-focused efforts…God will not get the glory for what “I” do. However, if I exercise faith in God and strive to glorify Him in every aspect of my job, growth in my business will be unexplainable…except for Him.

While coworkers stressed to shine and hustled to produce with implementation of those conference growth strategies, I worked to exercise faith in growing my business God’s way. Praying for empowerment to do the “unexplainable,” God exceeded my requests, enabling me to defy logistics and produce record personal sales. When asked how I did it, I threw up my hands and replied, “Jesus!” Aware of my personal limitations and weaknesses, I was strengthened as I experienced God’s power and accomplished that which I deemed impossible. Glory to God for making the impossible Him-possible!

“By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be My disciples” (John 15:8, ESV). Christ-followers: what’s your purpose? To bring glory to your Heavenly Father! Now…GO…be His disciples…and live your purpose!


 GOING DEEPER:
1. Are you living His intended purpose?

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