{"id":65125,"date":"2023-12-17T06:59:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T11:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=65125"},"modified":"2024-01-07T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T22:18:11","slug":"archives-your-family-your-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/archives-your-family-your-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives: Your Family, Your Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

You and your family have a mission in life. It is unlike the mission of any other person (or family) in the world. Someway, God has a design for you different from that of any other who has ever lived on this planet.<\/p>\n

There have been perhaps as many as eighty billion people in all of history and yet you have a mission that\u2019s as unique to you as your fingerprints.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s critical to know this because when we die, we\u2019ll see what that mission was \u2014 and more importantly, whether we fulfilled it (or perhaps we should say missions, plural). It\u2019s something we definitely want to do. We want to complete them. We can glimpse them \u2013 and get a sense of them \u2013 through prayer. A glimpse. In deep contemplation, we can ask the Holy Spirit to direct us as to carrying forth what the Lord has assigned to us, and we should, for every single one of us is equally important to God\u2019s Plan for Creation and everything we do is recorded and every minute on earth is precious (it never returns).<\/p>\n

The Lord knew you before you were born (Jeremiah<\/em>\u00a01:5 ) and before you were born He placed you in a huge puzzle that only He can see in its fullness.<\/p>\n

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The only human Who has ever been privy to the \u201cbig picture\u201d was Jesus and we see that He completed\u00a0His<\/em>\u00a0mission (\u201cIt is finished,\u201d He said \u2014\u00a0John\u00a0<\/em>9:30) when He was crucified.<\/p>\n

What is your life mission? Have you ever contemplated it? More importantly, have you prayed to accomplish it? If you have, how does it relate to your family? How might it relate to ancestors \u2014 and descendants (those who will come after you)?<\/p>\n

Have you ever asked the Holy Spirit to guide you in completing His plan?<\/p>\n

These are very important issues. A mission is linked to who we are, what we do, the opportunities we have had, those people we meet, the successes we have enjoyed, the failures we have endured, and those to whom we are closest. Often, we guess what our missions are, or try to fashion them according to what we expect or want. Some \u201cmissions\u201d seem obvious: A doctor may see his cause as healing the sick, and indeed that is likely a key part of it. A mother takes care of her children. That\u2019s obvious. A carpenter may see his mission as feeding his family, as well as building homes \u2013 and both are involved in it. A gardener takes care of trees.<\/p>\n

But we must ask ourselves: is what we do a mission? Is there more we should be doing, or focusing upon?<\/p>\n

And the answer will come only through prayer \u2013 in the spirit.<\/p>\n

\u2013MHB<\/em><\/p>\n

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[adapted from\u00a0Life Missions, Family Healings<\/a><\/em>]<\/em><\/p>\n

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