“I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” Ephesians 4:1
How many of us have ever asked, “What should I do with my life?” We probably all have. Of course, behind this question is a bigger and deeper one: “What is the purpose of my life?”
Those questions are ones that we never stop asking because we’re always entering different seasons in our lives. As children and youth we ask it when we're trying to figure out a career path. We ask it again when we think about getting married, or becoming parents, or increasing our responsibilities in other ways. We ask it when our children are grown up and the nest is empty. When we retire, we ask it all over again.
It’s a question that we not only ask about our walk in the world, it’s also a question that we (should) ask in our spiritual lives. “What is the purpose of my walk with Christ?” “What difference does it make in my life and in the world?”
Thankfully in Ephesians 4:1-6, Paul gives us the answer to the question, and what we find is that our walk with Christ determines our walk in the world. It provides direction. It provides purpose. It provides peace and unity in the body. It provides an example to the world. However that’s just a small sampling of the depths of the riches that we find in these verses.
