🎯 What’s your goal?

What do you want to accomplish in your life? What are you aiming for? 

“…let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us, ² [looking away from all that will distract us and] focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith…”
Hebrews 12:1-2 Amplified Bible (AMP)
 
Yes, you have a specially marked out race to run, a race that God has set out before you, but the race should never be your focus.
 
Out of God’s great love for mankind, He sent Jesus to the world to rescue the world from perishing and give them eternal life (John 3:16). Eternal life isn’t just living forever or going to heaven – both believers and unbelievers live forever even though they will have different addresses. Eternal life was a major part of the purpose for God’s rescue plan. Jesus defines eternal life in John 17:3 saying, “this is eternal life: knowing you the one true God and Jesus Christ.” The purpose of Christianity is the transferal of men and women from darkness to light (Colossians 1:13) so that they can have eternal life which is having a relationship (friendship) with God through Jesus Christ. Your primary purpose isn’t accomplishing some major task or building a successful business or church – your primary purpose is to know Jesus and to grow in relationship with Him. And this will last for eternity!
 
Yes, God has something for you to do – a specific task which forms part of His global mission to reach the lost and disciple the found – but you can only discover that specific purpose out of a relationship with Him. You discover your purpose through fulfilling your primary purpose of growing in relationship with God. Then, you run this race with passion and determination, with endurance and active persistence, by focusing on Jesus and your relationship with Him.
 
Many believers seek God on an entry-level enough to get some direction from Him. Then, once they have their direction they plot and plan and go for it – they give themselves to doing something for God but not to doing something with Him. A master-servant relationship mindset will cause you to do something for God while a New Covenant Father-son relationship will cause you to do something with God and out of a relationship with Him.
 
“And this, so that I may know Him [experientially, becoming more thoroughly acquainted with Him, understanding the remarkable wonders of His Person more completely] and [in that same way experience] the power of His resurrection [which overflows and is active in believers], and [that I may share] the fellowship of His sufferings, by being continually conformed [inwardly into His likeness even] to His death [dying as He did]”
Philippians 3:10 Amplified Bible (AMP)
 
If your relationship with God isn’t healthy and growing, then you are limiting what God can do in your life and through your life. If you’re focusing on goals and trying to accomplish things for God more than you are focused on knowing Christ and growing in relationship with Him, then you will not reach God’s potential for you.