Season 5 Episode 141
Have you ever felt like you were going through the motions...busy, achieving, and striving, yet still feeling empty inside?
It's a tension so many of us live with: the sense that we were created for more, but somehow we're missing the connection that brings life into focus.
In this solo episode, I dive into a powerful image that will forever reshape the way you see purpose. Imagine a glove. On its own, the glove is well-made, designed with care, stitched with intention. It has shape, form, and even potential but it sits lifeless. It cannot move, act, or fulfill its design. Only when a hand fills the glove does it come alive, moving freely and serving its intended purpose.
This is exactly how our lives work when it comes to God.
Scripture tells us in Genesis 1:27 (NIV): "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." Like the glove is made in the image of the hand, we were created in the image of God. Our very design is intentional. Yet just as the glove is powerless without the hand, we remain spiritually lifeless when we try to live apart from Him.
The world teaches us to chase after self-made purpose; career achievements, financial success, status, or even personal growth. These things aren't inherently wrong, but they can never fully satisfy because they are missing the One who gives purpose its breath. Without God inside of us, we are like that glove sitting on the table: created with design, but empty of life.
And here's the deeper truth: you don't need to search the world for your purpose because God has already written it into your very being. Jeremiah 1:5 (NIV) declares: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart." The longest relationship you have ever had is with the God who created you; He knew you before you had substance, before you drew your first breath.
Psalm 139:16 (NIV): "Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Long before you considered purpose, God had already designed one for you.
Here's the good news: when God dwells within us, everything changes. Like the hand filling the glove, His presence animates us. What once felt lifeless comes alive. Our steps are directed, our work gains eternal significance, and our identity is no longer rooted in striving but in abiding.
Think about what happens when a glove is filled with a hand. Suddenly, it is useful, strong, and capable of things it could never do alone. It can build, protect, comfort, or serve. Its strength does not come from itself but from what fills it.
In the same way, when the Spirit of God fills us, our lives overflow with divine purpose. As Acts 17:28 (NIV) declares: "For in him we live and move and have our being." We don't just exist—we thrive. We don't just survive—we serve.
When you allow God to move through you, your calling is no longer about what you can accomplish in your own strength, but about how He wants to use you to transform lives, shape communities, and glorify His kingdom. That's why Ephesians 2:10 reminds us: "For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
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