Work Prepared in Advance

Scripture: For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10

Observation: "... prepared in advance for us to do." God has prepared specific work that only we can do. In other words, his "purpose" goes beyond some generic statement such as "love and worship God" or "love and serve others". There is also some specific, personal, special, and good work that I - and no one else - am supposed to do.

Application: I am 48 years old, and I have NO IDEA what my personal purpose is for God. How sad is that.

I am not even sure what skills I bring to the table that could be combined to so some Godly purpose. I'm intelligent, which I have used to my advantage to gain wealth, but I know definitively that I had nothing to do with my success - it has all been a blessing from God. I have certain spiritual gifts, but none at this time that seem particularly useful to heavenly purposes. And I have a heart to love God, to acknowledge Jesus as my Lord and savior, and to try to do better as loving others here on earth.

Those are all pretty much the "generic purpose" types of things. So given that God has personalized work for me to do, I am clearly failing at walking close enough to him to know what it is.

Prayer: You know I long to simply hear your whisper. I am sorry that, for 48 years and counting, I have failed. I don't want to fail or flounder anymore. Please guide me to the purpose for which you created me - the good work you prepared in advance for me to do. Amen.