21 - Can You Question Your Way Into Purpose?
I heard the phrase once - “The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your questions.”
This resonated with me because I’d spent a lot of time in my life asking questions that got me to ‘nowhere-ville’ and just led to frustration and a lack of answers. I was spinning around in place pondering life through questions that I never got sufficient answers for. Talk about going crazy!
Once I changed up the types of questions I allowed my mind to analyze, it greatly helped my mental health. I’m not saying that at times I don’t slip back into old ways, but if I’m intentional with the questions I ask, I live a much more peaceful existence!
So to answer the question in the title of this “blog”, my answer is emphatically - Yes. Questions drive us to dive deep and evaluate, analyze, and ponder. We can choose to do this from a place of peace and curiosity. I’ve spent a lot of my life doing this from a place of stress and frustration. I don’t recommend that approach.
I do recommend trusting God in the process and allowing Him to heal any place in you that is not rooted in healthy soil so that low quality questions no longer poison your sanity, but usher in insight.
Questions do have a quality scale believe it or not! Ask yourself how you feel after you ask certain questions. Do they invoke peace or stress? Do you feel hope afterwards or distraught? Gauge the questions you choose to ask and find the ones that are high on the quality scale.
If you are questioning purpose and destiny, I’m going to leave a few questions below for you to answer. I have my answer to these on my phone and after re-reading my answers I think I might answer them again based on the additional clarity I’ve gotten since originally answering them. That’s the great thing about a good question. You can revisit and update the answer because the question always strikes a chord.
What did you love doing before you cared what anyone thought? What did you daydream about? What roles did you always play in imaginary games or friend groups?
What frustrates you the most in life and the world? What do you wish someone would fix? What do you see clearly that others miss?
What kinds of stories, moments, or messages make you cry without explanation? What moves you deeply and why?
Where have you shrunk, hidden, or performed because you thought the real you wouldn’t be accepted, useful, or successful?
If God whispered one sentence over your life that unlocked everything, what do you hope it would be?
And don’t stop here - you can use these questions as inspiration for more. Take them deeper and ask God what questions you should be asking.
Until next time…