An Old adage says: "God has a plan for every man, and He has one for
you," and this is absolutely correct. Your real problem, therefore, in
fact the only problem that you ever have, is to find your true place in life.
Find that, and everything else will follow almost automatically. You will be
perfectly happy; and upon happiness, health will follow. You will be really
prosperous. You will have all the supply that you require to meet your needs,
and this means that you will have perfect freedom; for poverty and freedom
cannot go together. Until you do find your true place in life, however, you never
will be really happy, no matter how much money or distinction you may acquire; and
until you are happy, you will be neither healthy nor free.
Whoever
you are, God has not made you without a definite purpose in view. The Universe
is a universe; that is, it is a unified harmony, a Divine Scheme. There can, therefore,
be no such thing, as a misfit, or an unwanted or unneeded piece. It could not happen
that God could create a spiritual entity such as you are, without having a
special purpose in view, and this means that there is a special and particular
place in it for you.
God
never repeats Himself, and so He has never made two people alike, and it is for
this reason that no two people could ever do quite the same work, or express themselves
in quite the same way. That is why, rightly understood, there really need be no
competition. There need be no such thing as, say, two thousand people
struggling for the same place in life. Whatever the place may be, there can be
only one person who can fill it perfectly; and there are one thousand, nine
hundred and ninety-nine other places somewhere waiting for the other people if
only they will find them.
But
how is one to find his true place in life? Is there any means whereby you may discover
what it really is that God wishes you to do? You may feel inclined to say:
"Even
if it be true that God has some splendid thing that He wishes me to do, and to
be, how can I possibly find out what it is?" Perhaps you may even be
tempted to add: "I am a very plain, everyday sort of person; my
circumstances are extremely restricted; the conditions of my life are just drab
commonplace. How then can there be something wonderful, beautiful, splendid
awaiting me? Or, even if there were, how could I possibly get to know about it?
“And the answer is Divinely simple- Already in your past life from time to time, God Himself has whispered into
your heart just that very wonderful thing, whatever it is, that He is wishing
you to be, and to do, and to have. And that wonderful thing is nothing less
than what is called Your Heart's Desire. Nothing less than that.
The
most secret, sacred wish that lies deep down at the bottom of your heart, the wonderful
thing that you hardly dare to look at, or to think about —the thing that you
would rather die than have anyone else know of, because it seems to be so far
beyond anything that you are, or have at the present time, that you fear that
you would be cruelly ridiculed if the mere thought of it were known — that is
just the very thing, that
God
is wishing you to do or to be for Him. And the birth of that marvelous wish in
your
soul
—the dawning, of that secret dream— was the Voice of God Himself telling, you
to arise and come up higher because He had need of you.
Source: Emmet Fox: Your Heart Desire
