7/8/25 Daily Devotion: Live. Life. On. Purpose.

1 Corinthians 9:26 - “So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.”

Are you running aimlessly?

What does running aimlessly look like?

• Living life in response & reaction to the circumstances around you.

• Letting your ever changing feelings, moods & emotions steer your decision making process.

• Letting the winds of changing culture, society & popular thought shape your views & opinions.

• Living aimlessly is waking up day after day & going through the motions of a life without a clearly defined WHY shaping & defining WHAT, HOW & with WHO you live your life … Living life without PURPOSEFUL INTENT.

What should you aim for? … What are you aiming for?

• Success?

• Wealth?

• Revenge?

• Power?

• Health?

• Acceptance?

• Adulation?

• Pleasure?

• Thrill?

• Influence?

• GOD’s WORD?

• GOD’s WILL?

Paul was not running aimlessly because he had encountered Jesus and He had given Paul a PURPOSE!

• Paul recounts this story in Acts 26 and gives us insight into the Purpose that Jesus gave him … (HINT: Paul’s Purpose is your Purpose too!)

• Purpose #1: Be a SERVANT … Serve God by serving others!

• Purpose #2: Be a WITNESS … tell others what Jesus has done & is doing in your life!

What SHOULD your aim be?

• To EXPERIENCE GOD by trusting & obeying Him with all of your life.

• To SHARE this experience of God with others that they might grow to KNOW GOD more.

Are you aimlessly wandering through your life or are you INTENTIONALLY bringing God’s Word & God’s Will to LIFE in and through you?

Live. Life. On. Purpose.