Finding your God given purpose and finding the meaning of life are very much the same thing. If you understand overall the meaning of life, by default you will soon feel your God given purpose as a unique individual within life as well. We will start by looking at Humankind and the forces that act against it, as defined in the Bible in the Book of Revelation. No, we are not trying to convert you into Christianity or any other religion. You do not need any religious system to fully become the spiritual person you are to become. Spiritual maturity happens to individuals all the time. This has been happening from the beginning of time, inside and outside of religions everywhere on earth in all societies. Character enters Humankind through the common man and motherhood, not only just through religions. Your God given purpose holding the meaning of life for you may not be in employment in the areas listed below. Your purpose and meaning may be found in a family setting. But insight in the capitalist world may help you serve better in your setting in support of the family members who hold such roles.
You may have a purpose in religion, but here is the religious world in a nutshell. Religions do not uniquely cause spiritual maturity as they claim, they are a result of the spiritual potential already in a community, manifesting as a religious institution within a local setting. This fully explains why there are more bad churches than nurturing good churches. This is because the bad character people in the community need a poisoning church to promote their elitism and judgementalism. Good people need a social setting to nurture their spiritual growth. Any church is an expression of the values already within their group, either good or bad. Religion does not make them; they make the values and practices of their religion. I know some of the best Christians, but who are also the worst human beings! Moreover, rarely in a few good churches, it makes them the best human beings.
If you feel inclined to work in government in any capacity, here is the setting in which you will have to live. Bad religions can be a negative force against Humankind blinding us to not see the meaning of life. There are other potentially negative forces besides religious institutions as well. These forces degrade our selfish inspiration to find ourselves and contribute our individuality to complete Humankind and life. They do this by making us conform to their values and discourage us from finding our individual values. As you grow up, you will have experienced restrictions in some form from these places. Religion is one because it promotes conformity and control. The second form is Government which also promotes conformity and control. These governmental influences were specifically minimized in the original Constitution of the United States as originally drawn up and amended.
Academia is the third potentially negative influence of control because it promotes Intellectualism as the sole measure of a person’s value and avenue of gaining employment and social privileges. Your individual values and your virtue as a person are based on character not solely on academic standing. I know some highly academically achieved people that have the least character. Academia was an institution for education, but now has become an institution deciding what is to be taught, even starting in elementary grades. Much immorality is being taught because it is their values, intended to change society to what the academicians want. If you are called in life is to be a teacher, then go there, but you may find conflict between you wanting to teach character and the teaching management demanding you to teach immoral curriculum.
Science similarly promotes Intellectualism because open interpretation at the highest levels is banned. In some circles like religion and academia, conforming wasp-like behavior is required. Science also has grown from being an area of study to being an institution of indoctrination to what the leaders in scientific study wish to teach. Their agenda is for human control and teaches values that are against freedom of humanity and taking away the rights of the common man and motherhood. Most studies and scientific findings will have strong unspoken messages promoting values the scientific community wish promoted, and all these institutions glorify themselves as the sole source of relevance about life. If you are called into areas of science, you not only will have to find your specific role of employment in it, but you will also have to find employment in agencies agreeing with your character values.
News and reporting are another realm discouraging your individuality because it promotes Modernity. Your desire to become a news broadcaster will be restricted by the values you are allowed to broadcast. News is a vehicle of science, academia, religion and government as it broadcasts news slanted to promote the social values each of the sister institutions wish promoted. When was the last time you saw a newscaster report on the use of a gun saving someone’s life or home because they had firearms to protect themselves? Never. If the situation does not support the causes the societal and political majority wants promoted, you cannot broadcast it and make a story on it, even if true and relevant. If your passion is in news, you may well have to search for an agency with your political views as a source of employment as well. Politics are entering more into life across all our personal roles in it.
Entertainment and Fashion are realms that promote Modernity as its foundational value, not your individuality. To be of social value, you must be modern and what is trending. Antiquity is banned and conservative values are highly banned. This realm includes sports, and areas covered by broadcasting and publication, oftentimes promoting unspoken negative values. News on these areas must be spoken; always moral values are implied in how they speak and cover it. The general posture of most information covered is one of elitism, consumption and encouraging the view of superiority over traditional values. There is always this air of being better than others because of your intellectual tastes and supremacy, but only if you think like them. Creative people thrive here but only if you again find employment and a setting that fits your passion, and a place that recognizes individuality and character.
Accumulating materiality is an overall social realm that promotes Greed and Modernity. All the information in your world will be presented with an underlying message that you are not valuable unless you have and are more and are newer. More money, more education and more social status. It must not be just more it must be the latest and the most current. There are implied messages in all our western culture that more materiality is better to just enough. Character values are never mentioned in any advertising, only the supreme value of consumption as the reason for living. The finest people I have ever known are in the simplest and most stable of settings. Current culture ignores them as irrelevant.
All these institutions promote values directly attacking us finding the meaning of life, and finding our God given purpose. Unless you become a wasp and merge into these wasp nests you will have no value, according to any of these realms listed above. All these society functions are necessary, a society cannot exist without them. Everyone will leave their home and family of origin to find their place in the world somewhere influenced by these realms. The meaning of life is in understanding this conflict between us being ourselves and it changing us to be like it. How we do that is in understanding ourselves and where we fit into society doing what we are intended to do. That is our God given purpose as an individual.
Each of us is like a ship carrying cargo. We are in the sea of life. We were created with a map and compass within and a destination to find. All that is on our path in life, which is a part of who we are. We get our sailing instructions from a compass and by reading the map within our hearts.
The meaning of life is in our putting our personal contribution into Humankind and in us being us in doing it. That is our God given purpose and why He made each of us different. Like colors in flowers, our different colors give Humankind its magnificent beauty. When we were born, we were given certain spiritual birthrights, the first being ‘Seeing things through our own eyes’. We were all born with a unique viewpoint, implanted with things we like to do, and with talents to match. How we see things as children will lead us to do our rightful things and find our rightful places as adults.
Doing the thing we are passionate about will lead us into the realms of life where our gift of our self is needed. It may well be in the professions and settings listed above. When you enter there, then there will be a conflict between it changing you into a wasp or you change it to encourage individual rights and freedoms for others. That was the original intent in the founding of America in our Constitution. Minimal government intervention was intended in the lives of individuals so we could pursue capitalism, creating freedom and prosperity.
Many of us will find employment in the institutions listed above. The meaning of life and our God given purpose is by our presence put as much character, honor, and virtue into what we do there. The setting will imply unspoken values that are wrong. We can, by how we live, imply unspoken values that are right. Take your message of who you are as an individual everywhere you go and in everything you do into the world. Do not let the world and those realms listed above change you. You change it by showcasing your character in it. I cannot think of a deeper meaning of life, or having a higher God given purpose than that.
Just for the record, this is an emotional and spiritual encouragement ministry. We are selling nothing here and are not at the present time even set up to take donations, and probably never will. Your healed life is our reward enough, and we are very pleased with that. If you want to, please share your strength with others in your future so our nurturing can live on.