Is anyone else out there really excited that we are only a few more days away from the Winter Olympics? I lived in Minnesota for eight years as a child so the Winter Olympics have always been more special to me than the Summer Olympics. I remember watching the American hockey team beat the Russian hockey team in 1980 and then going to the Hockey Hall of fame to only watch it a couple more times with my dad. We weren’t die hard hockey fans but the Olympics move people to be fans of sports they would not normally watch.

Why is it that we get so excited watching the Jamacian Bobsledding team? Or when we see a skier have a huge fall only to get gold two days later in another event? I think we see in these athletes a determination that we sometimes don’t feel in our own lives. That they have a purpose and they go for it. Many times we don’t know what our goals are or what purpose we have in our lives. The irony is that we were all created with a purpose in mind. Our Creator didn’t just create us to exist!!! He created us for a purpose. Each of us has a specific purpose in this world (actually, multiple purposes over time). No one’s is more important than another’s but they are all different; unique.

Is your purpose to be the best parent to your child? Is your purpose to be a friend to the one lonely person in the school cafeteria? Is your purpose to do that something special for the homeless? Is your purpose to walk through life with your friend who was just diagnosed with cancer? Is your purpose to find out more about Jesus Christ?

Seek out your purpose!!!