What's Your Purpose?
The purposes of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. (Proverbs 20:5 NIV)
The why question is an important question to ask of ourselves. Why do I do what I do? Deep waters are hard to see through because they are, after all...deep. Deep waters are hard to fish in as well for the same reason; they are...deep. Our hearts are like that; like deep waters. They can be hard to see through and hard to fish in. But a man of understanding is not deterred by this. A man of understanding draws out the purposes in his own heart.
I would (and still do) get frustrated at my own inadequacies when it comes to counseling people around me. I find it hard to draw out the purposes in their hearts. What I am seeing is that if I do not becomes skilled at doing this in my own heart first, I will never be the man of understanding that I seek to be with others.
