You were MADE for THIS!

I heard the most amazing message this week while at catalyst. Francis Chan was talking about all these times in scripture when some one was "set apart," or even "set apart from birth" for a specific purpose. The major point Francis was trying to get across is that God created you and I for a specific purpose, and no one else can fulfill that purpose. God created us for a specific reason.
Isn't that amazing!? God created me to do something that no one else can do. If anyone else tried being Travis, it just wouldn't work. If I'm supposed to go to Africa for missions, then God could do some amazing things through me. But if someone else went and did the same thing, it would be totally different.
But I started thinking about what this means for my life. Things have changed a whole lot for Desi and I over the past few months, and there are no signs of it slowing down. So what does this knowledge that God has something specific that He wants to do through my life mean for me while God has Desi and I where we are? Well, if gives my life incredible purpose. It gives me a reason to get up everyday and enjoy doing God's will.
But do you also see how plain stupid it is no to seek God's will? Think of what you could be cutting the Kingdom short of. If I don't pursue God's purpose for my life it would be like those IBM commercials. I just saw one where this guys walks into a conference room and all the furniture is pushed against the wall, and all these people are laying down on yoga mats in the floor. The guy who walked in says, "What are you doing?" Someone responds, "Ideating." "What's that?" he asks. "Coming up with new ideas," someone responds. "Why don't you just call it that." "Cause it's more than that," a woman explains, "we have to rethink the way we do things. Processes. Organization. Procedures." "How?" he questions. A pause. "We haven't ideated that yet," someone says. "Good lick with that," he says and walks out. Then it pops up on the screen, STOP TALKING. START DOING. That is exactly what I'm talking about. If we don't seek to realize God's plan for us we are no better than those people who sit around on the floor "ideating." Enough ideating, not doing anything to be a part of forcefully advancing God's Kingdom. It's time to START DOING. Start pursuing God's purpose for my life. So that I won't be responsible for cutting short the Kingdom of God and missing out on the great joy that can be mine.