Do You Know Where You're Headed?

Remember the painting of that building on Shirley Street? After I had driven past the sign the second time, the Holy Spirit said to me,"If you were to see the men working on that project, digging up all the mud and muck, all the rocks and everything, making big holes, and if you were to ask them what they were doing, they would say, "We’re moving toward that. We are building that." They could tell you exactly where they were headed." I have never forgotten that lesson.

I have a question for you: is your life similar to that? If someone were to ask you what you’re doing, could you tell them you’re headed somewhere? Could you tell them where? Are you so clear about your dream that you could paint a picture of it?

If you know where you’re going, then when someone doesn’t understand the reason for the mud, the muck, the water, and the hole, it doesn’t matter. All that might not look right, but you see, that’s the process. The process gets really messy sometimes. When you’re in the midst of the process, your life might not look like it’s becoming anything. But take careful note: there’s a painting of you. God has painted it for you in His Word. Anytime you get bogged down in the mud and the muck, every time you get discouraged, you can look at that painting.

When a person works in construction, sometimes the contractor will tell him just to dig a trench. He can’t see what this trench has to do with anything, but he has to trust him. He digs the trench because he knows the contractor sees things he doesn’t know about. Like wise, God is in the business of constructing us and our lives. He is the Contractor. Sometimes He will tell you to do something, and He won’t explain much about it.

You may be in the middle of something right now that He’s told you to do, but that you don’t understand; it doesn’t seem to make any sense. You feel like you’re just digging a trench. You’re saying, "This isn’t what I bargained for." Maybe your job is a trench. Maybe your marriage is a trench. But when you are pursuing God and His purposes, He’s saying, "Don’t quit. You don’t understand. Just stay where you are. We’re building something here. Just dig the trench."

A man may be able to see the outcome of God’s purposes in his life twenty years into the future or only one day ahead. Yet if he is living in God’s plans for him, he has found the key to his existence.

Becoming what God has purposed for you not only allows you to live effectively, but also to worship your Creator, who has given you ideas, talents, resources, and energy to fulfill His desires and plans for your life.

Proverbs 20:5 says "The purposes of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out." That’s a powerful statement isn’t it? "The purposes of a man’s heart are deep waters." That means your purpose is inside you. God has placed it deeply within you. However, in order to draw it out, you need to be assisted by God’s wisdom and revelation - because your purpose was born in the mind of your Maker.

Dr Myles Munroe