It all starts with God.

For everything, absolutely everything,
above and below, visible and invisible, ...
everything got started with him and finds its purpose in him.
-Colossians 1:16

It's not about you.
The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind,
or even your happiness.
It's far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions.
If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God.
You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years.
That's because we typically begin at the wrong starting point- ourselves.
We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? etc.
But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
The Bible says,'It is God who directs the lives of his creatures;everyone's life is in his power.'


I once got lost in the mountains.When I stopped to ask for the directions to the campsite, I was told,
"You can't get there from here.You must start from the other side of the mountain!"


In the same way, we cannot arrive at our life purpose by starting with a focus on ourselves.
We must begin with God,our Creator.


How,then, do you discover the purpose you were created for?


There is an alternative to speculate about the meaning and purpose of life.
It's revelation.
We can turn to what God has revealed about life in his Word.
The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it.
The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.


The Bible says,'God's wisdom...goes deep into the interior of his purposes...
It is not the latest message, but more like the oldest-what God determined as
the way to bring out his best in us.'


God is not just the starting point of our life; he is the source of it.
To discover our purpose in life we must turn to God's word,not the world's wisdom.
The Bible says,
'It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.' 


This verse gives us three insights into our purpose.
1. You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.


2. God was thinking of you long before you ever thought about him.
  His purpose for your life predates your conception.
  He planned it before you existed, without your input.
  You may choose your career,your spouse,your hobbies,and many parts of your life,but you don't get to choose your purpose.


3. The purpose of your life fits into a larger,cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.

Unless you assume a God,the question of life's purpose is meaningless. - Bertrand Russell,atheist.