What Is Your Life’s Highest Contribution?

My encouragement to you this month: As much as you can—and on an ongoing basis because it will change and grow—think about this question: 
What is your life’s highest contribution? 

That is, given your gifts, abilities, experiences, and passions—who you are—what is the greatest thing in your life that you can offer to the world or the Kingdom of God?

What do you hope to contribute to others or do in God’s hands before you die?
What is your life’s highest contribution? 

Think about that. Until you have a clear answer. Even if it takes your whole life. 
Because: Do you really have anything better to do with your life?
And: Nothing else will give you a greater sense of meaning and purpose in life.

This goes further than simply being a good person, a Christian, or for some of us, a good pastor.
What kind of person, Christian, or pastor? 
What kind of ministry or task? 
What kind of unique contribution?

Even if the answer is not yet clear, step toward where you naturally feel led, and over time things will become clear. 

Forget what other people do or achieve. Forget what you feel you “should” do.

The answer, at least in part, is already inside you. Whatever your highest contribution may be, the essence of it has been inside you from early on in your life.
It may have been recognizable since your youth. And it may or may not have matured and manifested itself at this point in your life. 
But it will never go away. It’s part of who you are.

As you pursue and prioritize everything around your highest contribution, besides meaning and purpose, you will also have greater peace, joy, and fruitful results than you could ever have with anything else.

Of course, you will struggle—it wouldn’t mean much if you didn’t.
And your highest contribution is the one thing you must not quit, and deep in your heart you won’t want to quit.

Even in retirement you’ll find it’s still with you in one way or another. It’s part of who you are. How are you able to continue it?

I pray you will pursue your life’s highest contribution the way the apostle Paul wrote in Philippians 3:12, “I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.” 

Photo Credit: geralt|Pixabay (This guy is amazing and generous.)