Written by Mark Roberts, a contemporary author.
One way to discern your purpose in life is by paying attention to your fruitfulness. Seeing clearly where and how you are bearing fruit that matters can help you receive, clarify, craft, and live your purpose. Then, if knowing your purpose helps you to live fruitfully, not only will this add meaning to your life, and not only will it serve your neighbors, but also God will be glorified. You might call this a win-win-win. Sometimes our fruitfulness and our sense of purpose are in full, obvious alignment… At other times our fruitfulness can help us discern our purpose, perhaps a purpose we weren’t even expecting… Fruitfulness as an individual is not something I produce on my own. I am not a solitary grapevine, growing all by myself. And neither are you. Rather, we are branches on the vine of Christ. Our fruitfulness is a result of our connection to Christ and, through Christ, to the other branches, that is, the people of Christ.
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples. [John 15:8]
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