We’ve all wrestled with the questions, “Why am I alive?” and “What am I supposed to be doing with the rest of my life?” To answer those questions, to live out your purpose, you must understand that God has called you and that His Word helps you know how to fulfill that calling.

KEY VERSES

ROMANS 8:28-30 (NASB)

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

UNDERSTANDING

• Who is doing all the work in these verses? How does this fact encourage you regarding the question, “What am I supposed to be doing for the rest of my life?”

• Read Galatians 1:6. Why is it critical to know that your calling is a gift of God’s grace? What is the danger in thinking that you, because of your winsome personality, intellect, or giftedness, have something to do with your calling?

• Read Galatians 1:15. How does Paul’s statement that God, “set me apart even from my mother’s womb” speak to the fact that God’s calling in your life is an act of grace? How does it speak to His love for you?

• Which part of Romans 8:28 is harder for you to come to terms with: that you are included in the promise that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love Him, or that He has called you? Why?

• What does it mean that God has called you, “according to His purpose”?

• Read Ephesians 2:10. What are some good works God calls all of us who follow Jesus to do? What are some unique good works God calls us as individuals to do? (Use specific examples from members of the group.)

Read 1 Timothy 1:12-13.

He considered me faithful, putting me into service, 13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief; 14 and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus.

• Paul wrote that God chose to use him, “even though ... “ How would you finish that same sentence? God considered me faithful, putting me into service, even though I ...

• If your sin and mistakes don’t change your calling, then does that mean you can live however you want, sinning freely, and God will still use you for His purposes? Explain.

APPLICATION

• From this week’s study, how would you answer the question, “What on earth am I here for?”

• Is it possible to answer God partially? To pick up His call to salvation but to ignore His call to follow Him? What are some ways you are tempted to do this?

• What would change in your life this week if you were to answer God’s call fully?

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