Reflections on Life and Spirituality 101

The hunger for significance and the call towards destiny

Sometimes the yearnings of our hearts are for something so very different from priorities people tell us are important. Through the silent pull inside, we sometimes don't know what this yearning is. But there lies beneath the surface, this solitude inside every one of us which tells us that we were made for something better than what the world can offer or what the world wants from us, if we only take time to listen. We yearn so much to do something worthwhile with our lives. The silent longing which cries out says that this life which came into this earth is worth much more than what the world says its worth; that this life lived, can be lived achieving something of much greater value and significance than what everyone else on the street desires to become or possess - to study well, to reach the heights of our professions, to settle down and have a family and so on until our lives are given back to God. The questions our hearts are asking, "Is there much more to life than what we see in this world?"

We often hear - God saved you for a purpose, that is to share His love with others. At times, it often sounds like God's love stands with motive and condition, that He saved us for this reason - that our worth is no much more than this reason alone. But even as we know Him better, we realize that every one of us is worth so much to Him. For us to stop short in saying 'God loves me so much', is like saying that the ocean is full of water but not really being able to fathom how much, how deep and how wide it is. It is seeing a very narrow view of God's heart for the lost. He is the only One who can give out abundantly, but yet not give any less. And the souls of what He created in the first place, are precious to Him. If we only see that clearly… He loves us, but He loves the others too - so many of them - different races, status, religions, different professions and ages; the well to do, the healthy, the indifferent, the lame, the hurting and the sick. So great the needs…

Are we listening to the cry of our hearts? Our first cry is the cry for a relationship with the One who created us. Having tasted the streams which pour forth from His heart to ours, our next cry is this, "Lord, I hunger to give back to You…" Our lives on this earth, for this brief period of time, has to count for something worthwhile and eternal. Beyond what the present world can give us. Above the perishable things that we can give back to the world.

Is there a hunger inside to leave behind a legacy?

A legacy means leaving an impressionable footprint on the beach front of another person. It means casting warm waters on the shoreline of another soul. It means being the gentle, soothing breeze to a fellow traveller in need of rest. It means being the seagull touching the sea of loneliness in a stranger seeking a friend. It means pointing the way to the source of truth. It means lending a hand to the haven of life. It means being there, showing His presence and making it real. Leaving another heart better than it was.

In God and for God.

Oh, the yearning to live a life which counts for something. Picture Heaven when we get there - people coming to embrace and thank us for making a difference. That they are there because of what you poured out into their lives, whether in sharing Christ or just being there when it mattered most. A life that is called unto purpose and destiny.

Psalm 90:12 - "So teach us to number our days that we gain a heart of wisdom"

The first question to ask is, "Lord, am I listening to the real yearning that You have put in me?"

Labels: Significance / Life Purpose, Spiritual Direction / Guidance