What Are You Living Your Life For?

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1

The purpose of a ‘THING’ lies in the use of it. Until you are able to use something, you wouldn’t know it worth or value.

Everything that God created has its purpose attached to it, and everything created, or manufactured by man has reason or purpose why it was made or created.

Have you ever sat down to question yourself why you are still alive? Do you really know why you are on the planet earth for?

Most often, I wonder why some of us are still alive without pursuing the very reason or purpose FOR WHICH we are living. For those of us who work, do we go to work to work for money or to fulfil a mission or task? Are you living your life because of a payslip? Hasn’t God told you to take care of His own and He [God] will take care of you? Don’t only be a workaholic.

The purpose of a printing machine is to help print any document we need to print. Telephones also have the purpose of aiding effective communication in our everyday life. Where we cannot be physically or instantly and efficiently, the telephone aids us to communicate. The purpose of a fan is to help remove excessive heat, by producing a cooler air same as the air conditioner.

In medicine or nursing, an intravenous pump has the purpose of regulating the rate of flow of a fluid administered through an IV catheter. A CPAP machines are produced to serve the purpose of helping patients with sleep apnoea. A sleeping difficulty with breathing, where the muscles and soft tissues in the throat relax and collapse sufficiently to cause a total blockage of the airway; it is called an apnoea when the airflow is blocked for 10 seconds or more (NHS, 2015).

Why are you living?
The car I have is to help me get to point B from point A easily. I once asked my good lady friend why she owns a dog; her answer was just simple. “To bark when thieves come into my house”. The dog is living its purpose. Are you living your purpose? God our creator has a purpose for you. He kept you alive for a purpose.

Just to mention few. It is therefore clear that, nothing on this planet earth is without a purpose.

The clothes and the thing we wear are or were all created to provide us with heat, depending on the season and the geographical location we find ourselves.

Have you ever asked yourself why we need a hammer at all? Failing to know why they are created, you are more likely to use it wrongly. This therefore implies that, the hammer is to help drive a nail forcefully through a wood and not on somebody’s beautifully modelled skull.

We are created the same way to show forth the glory of God by using our gift and talents. God created us with specific purpose to accomplish here on earth and until we step up and discover that very purpose for our lives, we may be living for the wrong reason.

Developing a relationship with God was one of the best reasons why He created us. He created us to show forth his praise and glory. Until we come to know God, we've had many wonderful experiences, but we haven't served our full purpose.

"You [God] have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee" Unknown Author.

My purpose in life is to blaze a new trail, encourage, motivate, inspire and empower my generation away from the wrong path most people have taken.

As the late Dr. Myles Munroe once said “Empty yourself before you die and you must rob the graveyard of your potentials”.

My desire is to live a life that will inspire others to want to follow by serving others with passion, truth and in honesty. It is also my prayer to continue to teach, to assist, and to coach people; how they can develop themselves and use their positive mind-set as a tool to create a life of success, fulfilment, joy and happiness for themselves.

Do you really know what you are living for?
Do not only live a life, be impactful.
Begin to ask yourself this question. What legacy am I leaving behind? This will actually help reshape your mental attitude to want to discover your purpose why you are still here.

Find a quite place to reflect on your life and see if you are living your purpose. Take the time and write down as many statements as you go along. Nobody owns you tomorrow. You own yourself that, and until you discover and live your purpose, you can’t easily say you have lived a fulfilled, purposeful, and meaningful life.

We are all created differently but one thing is sure; we are created with a purpose.

To identify or live a definite purpose, you must:

1. HAVE A BELIEF AND LIVE ITS VALUES. You must have some core beliefs that influence your decisions. You ought to have values that shape your day-to-day actions, and help set your priorities right. Do not live anyhow but, live accordingly.

2. LEARN TO SET PRIORITIES RIGHT. Live your life by focusing on what matters most to you. Identify things or people who matters to you where you want to be in life and learn from them. Spend time with people who understand your vision or purpose in life. This help to put your life in order.

3. CHASE YOUR PASSION. What drives you when you get up in the morning? Whatever you think drives you must be pursued vigorously. Never allow anything to stop you from chasing that dream. You can never achieve anything concrete without a pursuit. You must be ready to put your heart into everything you want in order to make a difference.

4. HAVE A BALANCE LIFESTYLE. You must pursue a dream by all means but, you must also learn to have a balance life. Don’t only pursue career; Spend quality time with family and friends also. Try and create time to socialise with relatives and friends you have not seen for a long time to catch up with other essentials aspect of life.

5. DON’T BE JEALOUS OF OTHERS; BE CONTENT. Never allow envy to destroy your potential or purpose of living. Your inner peace is determined by how content you are about what you have and who you are. Nobody is like you and neither will there be any to come. You are very special and have unique gifts and talents. Examine yourself and see what you are born with. Begin to maximise it fully to be a blessing to your society.

6. DARE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Selfishness has no room for success. Live your life to help other live their life too. To live a meaningful life, you must be ready and prepare to help others achieve dream dreams. Do things for others without expecting them to pay you back. Let your life be an exemplary role model for others to follow or emulate.

7. BE GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL. A thankful life is a grateful life. Never allow bitterness to cloud your sense of thanksgiving. Remember that, all you have and are is because of God. Live your life to be grateful. Appreciate and cherish each moment of your life, value the people in your life and never expect so much from others. Remind yourself of what you have, and be grateful to God. You are still alive whiles some have passed on. That alone should give you the reason to be grateful to God no matter how difficult your life is at the moment, there is always something to be thankful for.

A purposeful life is a meaningful life. Therefore, live to pursue your divine purpose in life.

Ferdinard Senyo Lawson is a Creativity Award (CA-AWARD, 2015) Best Life Coach & Best Public Speaker Winner, True African Heritage Awards (BEST AUTHOR, 2015) and Beffta Awards winning author (2013) of many inspirational and motivational books.

He is a Life coach, mentor, publication consultant, Columnist, radio host, the C.E.O and the founder of Ferdinard Lawson publication consultancy, the pioneer of the Ferdihealth Promotion Center (FHPC) GHANA; Ferdinard Lawson Empowerment & Inspirational C.I.C ( FLEiCIC) in UK. Ferdinard S Lawson’s mandate is to empower, motivate and encourage believers to remain focus in serving the Lord and discovering of their identity to pursue their purposes in life.

Ferdinard Lawson is also an international speaker and an advisor to The Achievers Foundation; Ghana. He was honored as an Extraordinary Individual in United Kingdom by THE LIFT EFFECTS GROUPS. ( UK)and holds a Bachelor Degree in Public Health and Social Care and an influential Member of Royal Society for Public Health (MRSPH) in UK.

Ferdinard Senyo Lawson
Founder & C.E.O of Ferdinard Lawson Empowerment & Inspirational Agency C.I.C ( FLEiA.CIC) in UK, Public Health Professional, Author, Lifestyle Coach, Transformational & Public Speaker and Publication Consultant.