Do you ever stop to wonder what kinds of questions you’ll want to ask God when you get to Heaven? Yeah, it’s not something I usually think about until something in my life happens that I’m desperate to understand, but impossible for my human mind to fathom. Until this morning…

The recent passing of a person very dear to me had me thinking about Heaven and what it must be like to finally have the arms of Jesus wrap around me. Then so many other thoughts came to mind, but the one that I settled on was a question to myself.

“What questions would I want to ask God?”

A few silly ones came to mind, but then I thought about a blog I posted earlier this month called “Where To Now?”. So I thought, maybe I could ask Him what the EXACT purpose is for which He created me. And I don’t mean, “Why did you create me?” I mean more like, “What was the ONE thing that you intended for me to accomplish in this life in order to make lasting impact on Your Kingdom?”

Then, just like I had actually been talking to Him, I heard, “Be my daughter.”

Now mind you, I was just having these thoughts roll through my mind. I wasn’t praying or trying to have a conversation with God in this moment. Yet this one question that came to mind that I didn’t expect to get an answer to until I got to Heaven, He decided to answer now. And then He gave an answer that I wasn’t expecting. I was looking for more of a career-choice answer, but He gave me His simple truth instead.

So now I need to think about what it means to be His daughter. I think that it means I should do my best to… love like Him. forgive like Him. extend grace like Him. talk like Him. listen like Him. Basically, I need to be a reflection of Him since I am made in His image.

I’m beginning to wonder if it really even matters what I do as a career as long as I’m doing it for Him, for my Father. I know He gives us each unique skills that He wants us to use for His Glory, but what if He leaves it up to us to decide how that looks?

So maybe instead of asking what I want to do with my life, I should ask how I want to do it…?