"There is nothing quite as exhilarating as getting out of bed in the morning, going back into the world, and knowing why."
 
That's a quote from the book Jesus Christ, Disciplemaker, by Bill Hull, and I think it expresses a deep desire that most of us have. It's the desire to live a purpose-filled life. Ephesians 2:10 says that "we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Verses like that whisper to our soul that we were put on this Earth for a reason, that God has a plan to use us in some special way. We tend to search for that plan most aggressively when we are young, but even if time and exhaustion has worn down our idealism, we retain the stubborn hope that our lives will not just be a pursuit of the trivial, but a fulfillment of God's purpose for our lives.
 
The question is, how do you discover that purpose? How do you figure out, not just God's general will for everybody, but His specific calling for you? I'm looking forward to sharing my thoughts on that subject this Sunday at Sunridge.