In the 60s it seemed like everyone was on a mission, “to find themselves.” We asked, “Why was I born? What difference does my life make? What was I meant to do with my life?”
In search of purpose in life some decided to live a communal life, sharing everything. Others went into the Peace Corps or VISTA. Some just wandered around this country and the world hoping to “find” some meaning. And a few just tried to escape into the drug scene. But I think most of us just did what Sharon Budzier reported she has done. “I've just worked at a job, supported my church, and tried to be a decent human being.”
Then, Sharon had an important revelation: “It has finally dawned on me that I am meant to go about God's business while I'm going about mine. Of the many choices I make every day, each one can be evaluated in light of one question: What would God want me to do?”
Today the popular phrase is WWJD, What Would Jesus Do. But the question should be the one Sharon asks in her daily life, “What would God want me to do in this situation?”
In my opinion Sharon has truly “found herself” in realizing that purpose in life doesn’t come from doing something the world calls significant. Our purpose in life is to do go about our daily lives with our hearts open to God’s purpose and leading.
Quotations from The Upper Room Daily Devotional—email edition, July 29, 2004. © The Upper Room 1996-2004.
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