Your Assignment

John spent much of his life trying to be someone he wasn’t—chasing after the image of success he saw in head coaches, famous athletes, business entrepreneurs, and influential leaders. Each day he shaped himself to fit their mold, but he found only emptiness and frustration. Deep down, he sensed a quiet pull, a reminder that he was meant for something different. However, he kept ignoring it and pushing it aside. He believed that acceptance and purpose would come by becoming someone the world admired, not realizing he was drifting further and further from who God created him to be.

The reality is that God had already prepared an assigned work for John—something that matched his true heart, gifts, talents, personality, and abilities. Yet every time John chased someone else’s path, he delayed the fulfillment and joy God intended for him. He was often in someone else’s lane, trying to live out their assigned calling and work. It wasn’t until John stopped striving to be someone else that he finally found peace. When he embraced his true identity, he stepped into the purpose he was made for and assigned to, discovering a life far richer than anything he had tried to create on his own.

In a similar way, as children of God, we have been lovingly and intentionally assigned a work by the Lord Jesus Himself. This isn’t a random task handed out without thought. It is a specific calling—one that fits within the sweet spot of how God has uniquely created us, with our gifts, our talents, our abilities, and our passions.

The Apostle Paul understood this so deeply that he said his very life was worth nothing unless it was poured out fulfilling the assigned work Jesus had given him. His assignment was to tell others about the Good News of God’s wonderful love and grace, and he refused to be distracted from that mission by anything or anyone else. He didn’t covet another person’s calling. He didn’t compare himself to others. He didn’t veer off into another person’s lane. He stayed faithful to what he was assigned.

Listen Closely: God has done the same with you—whether you’re an athlete, coach, pro scout, business leader, pastor, or ministry leader. Before you were ever born, God wove into you the abilities and desires that would match the calling He planned for your life. Your gifts are not random; they are intentional. Your passions are not meaningless; they are signposts pointing you toward your assignment. Your life, lived fully in the center of that calling, becomes an amazing offering to God.

It’s so easy to look around and want to imitate someone else’s abilities, someone else’s success, someone else’s gifting, and someone else’s assignment. However, when you strive to be someone you’re not, you step out of the place where your life carries its greatest influence. Faithfulness is not about how much you accomplish compared to others—it’s about how faithful you are to what God has assigned to you.

God has specifically equipped you for a purpose that no one else can fulfill exactly like you can. Stay in your lane. Be faithful in your calling. Don’t compare. Don’t compete. Just complete the work God has assigned and entrusted to you, knowing that in doing so, you will hear the greatest words imaginable one day:

“Well done, My good and faithful servant.”
(Matthew 25:23)