When Purpose Pulls You Back From the Edge

There’s a quiet kind of pain most people don’t talk about. Not the dramatic kind, the kind that sits in your chest like a stone. The kind that whispers, “Why am I even here?” It sneaks up late at night, or early in the morning, or in those in-between moments when life slows down long enough for your thoughts to get loud. Or, "It would be better if I was not even here."

If that’s you, let me tell you something you might not believe yet:

There is a calling on your life that hell is terrified of.

That’s why the enemy pushes so hard. He doesn’t attack what isn’t valuable.

You Weren’t Meant to Live Stuck Inside Your Own Hurt

One of the fastest ways darkness grows is when your whole world collapses into the size of your own pain. Everything turns inward. Every thought circles the same questions. Every feeling pushes you deeper into yourself.

But here’s something no one tells you:

Purpose almost never shows up while you’re staring at yourself. Purpose shows up when you touch someone else’s world.

When you shift your focus outward — even a little — you create space for God to breathe life back into you.

God Didn’t Create You to Be a Shadow

Sometimes people think God gives purpose to the “strong ones,” the bubbly ones, the Bible-scholar ones, the Instagram-put-together ones.

But look through Scripture.

God called:

•Moses — who didn’t want to speak

• Gideon — who hid from responsibility

• Elijah — who begged God to let him die

• Peter — who failed loudly and often

• Paul — who carried regret like a scar

Yet God said, “You. I want you.”

If they weren’t disqualified, neither are you.

Purpose Doesn’t Start Big

You don’t wake up one morning with a spotlight on your calling. Purpose isn’t a title, a stage, or a job description. It grows like a seed — small, fragile, unnoticed.

It shows up in moments:

• when you comfort someone who’s crying

• when you feel compassion for a stranger

• when you pray for someone quietly

• when you give what little you have

• when you show up for a person who can’t give anything back.

Sometimes your calling is simply this:

Be the person you needed when you were hurting.

**Focusing on Others Doesn’t Erase Your Pain…

But It Stops Your Pain From Erasing You**

There’s something supernatural that happens when you help someone else. It doesn’t magically fix your life, but it lifts you above the suffocating swirl of your own thoughts.

The enemy wants you isolated, inward, and overwhelmed. God wants you connected, outward, and alive.

Philippians 2:4 says, “Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.”

Not because your needs don’t matter, they do. But because you weren’t created to live folded in on yourself.

Your heart wasn’t designed to be a closed room. It was designed to be a doorway.

You Are Needed — More Than You Realize

There are people who will only experience Jesus because of you. People who won’t reach out unless you check on them. People who will feel seen because of the way you love. People who will find hope because of something you say or do.

You may not feel important today. But heaven knows your name. Heaven sees your potential. And heaven knows the impact you haven’t even made yet.

A Simple Prayer for the One Who Feels Lost- Opening Your Eyes to Purpose

God, open my eyes to the people around me. Show me who needs what You placed inside me. Pull me out of myself and into the purpose You designed for my life. Speak louder than the darkness. Heal the parts of me that feel broken, and use them to bring light to someone else. In Jesus’ name, amen.