Live on Purpose

Lately I've felt that I'm fighting time. Being a college student at the end of another semester time always seems to slip away, making it impossible to do anything productive or worth while. It is interesting to see how people behave when it comes down to crunch time. While many people will have there own version of freaking out: crying because they are overwhelmed, screaming because they don't understand or becoming hermits because they need to figure out exactly what the text book is saying. In the midst of all these kinds of people you will find those who are relaxed, laid back and acting the same way they would if they were on a vacation in the Bahamas.

Usually I'm one of those in the latter group, but this semester I've found myself locked in my room screaming at the text book and on the verge of crying and just giving up. What changed? Why all the sudden am I freaking out and not my usual laid back self? I let life take me over. I'll say it again, I let life take me over.

Instead of living life I became one who was knocked over by it. Rather than making everything I do a decision I instead fell into letting life throw me for loops that ended up going nowhere. Now for those of you thinking "Aren't you supposed to be surrendered?" I'll say one thing, yes. I, like the rest of us, am supposed to be surrendered to God. I feel like so many people skew this notion of being surrendered to God into something that makes them a prisoner of the world, rather then a fugitive of it. We are fugitives aren't we? According to the dictionary a fugitive is "a person who has escaped from a place." If we are believers, if we are saved, we are those who have been broken out of the prison which is the world.

So if we are meant to be surrendered doesn't that mean letting go and just moving with the flow? The answer is yes, and no, we must remember that if we are fugitives we are working in opposition to the rest of the world and its practices. We do this is by LIVING ON PURPOSE.

When we LIVE ON PURPOSE we don't just get caught up with the world, instead we do everything for the specific reasoning of serving and bringing glory to the original jail bird, Jesus Christ. When we LIVE ON PURPOSE every thought, decision and action should be running through the filter that is servanthood. When we live our lives through the perception of serving others, through the act of freeing others from this prison, everything else that we do; school, work, conversations, driving, eating, sleeping, buying clothes, going to the movies, hanging out with friends, all of it, will be for a reason. If we are able to live lives on purpose, an believe me its not easy, but if we are able to even do it for a matter of minutes why would we ever let ourselves get caught up in the endless spin cycle of this world's worries.

My friends, live on purpose, move for a reason, be fugitives to this place which is temporary.