DON'T WASTE TIME!

You can never be totally and completely satisfied until you find your purpose and then live in it. You cannot do what you’re supposed to do until you discover what you are supposed to do. And if you do what you’re not supposed to do, you’re not going to be fulfilled. You’re wasting time. You’re abusing your life. STOP IT RIGHT NOW!

I was speaking about purpose at a church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A lady came up to me after service and said, "I’m fifty-six years old, brother. Where were you fifty-six years ago?" I said, "What do you mean?" She said, "You’re the first person ever to come into my life and help me understand that I have a reason for living - and I can’t give an account of fifty-six years right now. Where were you for fifty-six years?"

Sometimes people begin to feel the way that woman did; they’re distressed because they’ve wasted so much time. If this is your situation, don’t be discouraged. One of the wonderful things about God is that He has a way of restoring the years that the locusts have eaten (Joel 2:23-26). When you go to Him, He knows how to make up for the time that you’ve lost.

Yet God would prefer that we follow Him and know our purpose all our lives. That is why the Word of God says very strongly to young people, "Remember your Creator in the days of your youth" (Ecc 12:1). The Bible is saying to us, "Remember God now - not when you’ve finished partying and ruining your health with drugs, alcohol, and wrong relationships, so that you say, "Well, I’m sick now; I’d better go find God." Don’t wait until after you have messed up your life to remember God. "Remember your Creator in the days of your youth." Why? God wants you to remember the Manufacturer early so that He can set you on course for your entire life.

God didn’t say, "Remember the university." he didn’t say, "Remember the school guidance counselor," or "Remember what your friends are saying." They can give you only their opinions about what you should do. God said, "Remember your Creator, the Manufacturer, the One who made you. Remember Him first while you’re young." Why? So that the evil days won’t rob your life.

Some of you know what I’m talking about because you’ve been there and now regret it. Some of you might still be in the middle of it. Others of you might not be using harmful substances, but you’re still ruining your life. You’re working fourteen hours a day trying to be "successful," but you’re not doing what you were put on the earth to do. You’re not going to be fulfilled.
Wouldn’t it b e great to live every day effectively, doing exactly what you were born to do? There’s no fulfillment without knowing your purpose.

- Dr Myles Munroe -