How to Find Your Purpose According to the Bible
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. — Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV) You're probably not reading this because life is going well. Maybe you're between jobs, or stuck in one that drains you, or lying awake at 1 a.m. wondering if the last ten years added up to anything. Maybe someone younger just landed the thing you've been praying for, and you're trying hard not to resent them for it. The Bible does speak to this, but not with the kind of tidy answer that fits on a coffee mug. Why this is genuinely hard Part of the difficulty is that we've been handed Jeremiah 29:11 as a personal promise when it was first a letter to a whole community of exiles in Babylon, people who'd lost their home, their temple, and any sense of when things would get better. That doesn't make the verse untrue for you. It does mean it can't be forced to promise you a specific job, a spouse, or five years ...