I know that there are many, many people who are not aware or don’t believe that they were placed here on this planet to accomplish some task(s) or mission. Others have just grown weary of the battles and could care less about any mission, even if they knew what it was. Then there are those that desperately want to hear “Well done my good and faithful servant“, if they could just figure out what the “well done” was in reference to, or what the end game was. I think those that feel they know what their destiny here on earth is all about, at an early age, are truly blessed. Of course that assumes that they are also pursuing that calling. But, let me share a few thoughts in this area.
Establishing annual mission statements is becoming more and more difficult.
Doing is being replaced by the need to just BE. I’d been told it many times: being comes before doing; however, the reality of that and many other truths has to sink in before it can be activated. In America especially, the addage is “Ready, Fire, Aim“. I’ve been there, done that.
It doesn’t work very well at all. 
It seems to me that there are so many things that have to fall into place before you can really get into the heart of your destiny. Time doesn’t allow for great details, but I believe these are some of the ingredients that help you accomplish your destiny.
You need accountability, maturity, and lots of education in a variety of subjects.
There have to be many failures from which we learn so many valuable lessons. Keeping the failures as small and insignificant as possible is helpful though we’re never totally in charge of that opportunity.
A person needs to have built up a core of close friends for a host of reasons which means you need to be a friend. You need a variety of friends!
You must take a drink from many streams and be ready to spit out any bitter water; however, to not taste the great variety of wisdom teachings (even those that contradict one another) keeps you handicapped.
And a common denominator of the above numerators would be to have an intimate relationship with God, your spirit man, and to nurture that with daily meditations.
Being in the right location is probably far more important than we know, but knowing where that is sure isn’t easy.
Do the above and another dozen or so things and you’re on your way! Certainly not there yet, but at least there’s hope that you might make it before the clock runs out.
I’ve asked myself a thousand times, “Am I where I’m supposed to be? Is this what God wants?” Some times the answer has been “No.” And I’ve made a course correction.
Yet, now that I pray daily to be led, I have finally come to the realization that I need to trust that where I am is where God led me and that God will direct the next step. I need to rest in the knowledge that I AM where I AM and that there is no place where God’s presence is not.
This knowing is helpful, since sometimes I’m led where people are scared and circumstances make no sense. I have to trust.
Am I there yet? Yes, for now. It could change, though, in the next 5 minutes. What I’d really like is a nice trip through the green pastures and still waters. However, I’m not in charge.
Sounds like a woman of wisdom.
Yes, it takes too much patience, I am being burned thined already, the Lord wasn’t joking when he said being a Christian would be a difficult and narrow path. Hope seems to be billions and trillions of miles away.
Hope is in your every breath. Inhale His GOODNESS and exhale the “thoughts of man”. Take HIM IN, and kick all the rest out- for the moment.
Practice make peace.
I am sorry that it seems so hard. I can identify. On the other hand, I ask, “Where would I go?” or “What would I do?” (if I didn’t follow Christ?)
I believe that we all confront pain, frustration, and heartache. That’s the human condition and good fodder for teaching us how to live.
I hope TheChristianOlympian does not give up. I do not negate the pain or the sense of hopelessness. I have definitely lived there.
I will say that there is a place to dwell above the turmoil and circumstance. I can’t say I do it all the time, or perfectly, but it is available when I am able to access it.
I am not trying to be a Pollyanna. I admit suffering and despair. I only know that God’s Spirit is able to lift me above whatever I am facing. I know, because I have a lot to face right now.