On the trip to Florida when I was in the terrible accident which nearly took mine and my family's life, I had been reading Rick Warren's "Purpose Driven Life". I began reading it out of a quest to find what my purpose in this life truly was. I know God had created me for His glory, but I wanted to know exactly how He wanted me to serve Him and people. Thus, I began reading "The Purpose Driven Life" at the start of my spring break from highschool that 24th day of March of 2004.
The book suggests you take 40 days to read it, but I wanted to read it in about a week, so I began reading as fast as I could on that morning before the car accident. It is interesting how the next forty days I spent in a coma. I believe God was trying to get my attention that in order to find my purpose and calling in this life, He needed to first take me on a little journey. That Journey began with the forty day coma and progressed into 72 days in the hospital. It has continued for the past eight years of intense therapy, which ended about a year ago. Though I am still in daily training with physical and mental conditioning, I believe God wanted me to learn a powerful lesson from that little book.
That "Purpose Driven Life" was bookmarked at a key passage. One quote reads on page 30, "Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. We were meant to have meaning." Again on page 31 the author writes "Hope is essential to your life as water." These two words have been two of the of the most meaningful words that I have experienced in the past eight years. So many people don't really know what purpose they have in life. And, they don't know who the ultimate purpose-giver is.
So many allow the cares and trials of this world to cause them to forget their purpose. Many young men and women simply get overwhelmed with the stress and pressures in this life and give up on life. They look at their circumstances in which they live and simply lose hope that they will ever better themselves.
There was many times I could have lost hope that I would ever get out of that wheelchair or that I could ever figure out a math problem again, but in my spirit I knew God had an ultimate plan and He still had a purpose for me. Praise God I am now running and in college. However, even if God had chosen to not fully heal me, He still would've had a purpose for me.
I believe having a personal relationship with my Savior Jesus Christ has given me the most purpose and meaning in life during the past eight years of my recovery. Many times I have been tempted to give up, but somehow I have known that if I would just keep pressing, and just keep fighting and giving a little effort each day, I had an assurance that God would honor that and He would be true to His Word and Promises. He promised me, "I will never leave you or forsake you" and in Psalm 62 He has promised to always be my rock and source of strength.
So I ask you, who or what is your source of strength? Do you place your faith in your bank account, which possibly will fail? Do you place your faith in your retirement which is never an assuring principle? Or do you put your faith in your spouse who lets you down all the time?
I challenge you to place your faith in God. Ask Him to forgive you of your sins and become Lord of your life. Put your trust in Him, and I promise He will never let you down.
He never has let me down. Rather he has taken me from life support to a kindergardener's mental capacity to now a senior in college. Romans 10 says, "Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
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