Why Blog a Book About Finding Your Purpose
Finding your purpose is a journey. Life is short and too precious to waste. And I have wasted enough time! God told me start a blog years ago but I kept getting stuck. “Who am I writing for?”, “What do I write about?”, and “What is the purpose of my blog?” were some of the questions I would ask God over and over. It’s really hard to write when you don’t have a vision and purpose for what you are to write. In fact, it’s hard to accomplish anything without vision and purpose.
A couple years ago, God told me to teach a class to the women at my church about finding your purpose. My question to Him was, “How can I teach them how to find their purpose when I’m still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up?” That was a valid question but as He always does with me He leads me to learn in the fire, in the thick of it.
As I was preparing the material for the class I began to see the steps it takes to figure out your purpose. It was amazing! Some of it I knew but I didn’t see the big picture of how it all came together until after I started preparing for class.
Prior to the class, I’ve heard many believers trying to figure out what they were called to do and getting stuck because they had no vision or purpose for their lives, myself included. During and after the class however, God began connecting the dots for me, showing me that nothing I have ever done in life was wasted.
It all culminated to the purpose He’s had for my life all along which was to be His communicator. I’m not talking about the prophetic gifting and telling others their future as God see it. What I am talking about is speaking His message of truth, what the bible has to say, about everything pertaining to life and our purposes in Him.
Why blog this book? It wasn’t until I came across Nina Amir’s book How to Blog a Book that this discovery of finding my God given purpose, which is to help the body of Christ walk in their identity and purpose, that the reason for my blog came to a cohesive union.
Blogging my book gives me purpose in blogging. It also helps me to get this message out quicker than just publishing it outright. Though I have a good percentage of the book completed, I feel strongly that God wants His people to know what their purpose is and how to figure that out NOW and blogging is how that will be accomplished. My book on finding your purpose will get published but blogging it will knock two birds with one stone.
Lord willing, I plan on writing two to three posts per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
God wants to help you to uncover and unlock your purpose. He wants to go on this journey with you because the journey starts with Him!