Purpose Study Guide

The Purpose of Life Study Guide

Nobody - you, anyone you know, people with great power and abilities (“princes”) - can accomplish on our own the kind of good in the world that God can accomplish. Even if someone has great plans and works hard, when they die their plans pretty much die with them. God’s plans for the world, described in the second part of Psalm 146, include bringing good to all kinds of people. God’s plans never die. When we seek and allow God to continue creating through us, we become part of God’s eternal plan to help the oppressed, feed the hungry, to care for widows and orphans. God will work through us to build up good places wherever we live - to a much greater extent than we ever could do on our own. In so doing, we will join the work that began before we were born and will continue after we die. As we seek and allow God’s continuing creation in our lives, God continues this work in the world through us.

1. When have you felt that God was working through your life to build up shalom - as described in Psalm 146 - in the world?

2. How do you feel God calling you to be involved in building up shalom somehwere?

3. Ask for God’s guidance and grace to see and do what God has prepared for you.

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