Since you didn't create yourself, there's no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! Only God can tell you that. Forget about self-actualisation; it doesn't work. Life is about letting God use you for His purposes, not using Him for yours. "So, how can I discover His purpose for me?" you ask. Listen: "It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ,... He had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone" (Eph 1:11,12 TM). Notice three things here: (1) You only discover your life's purpose through a relationship with Christ. (2) God determined your life's purpose before you existed - without your input! (3) Your purpose fits into a much larger purpose.

Andrei Bitov, a Russian novelist, grew up under an atheistic, communist regime, but God got his attention. He recalls, "One dreary day while riding the Metro in St. Petersburg, I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, pre-empting the future entirely, let alone any meaning. Suddenly, all by itself, a phrase appeared: 'without God life makes no sense'. Repeating it in astonishment, I rode the phrase up like a moving staircase, got out of the Metro and walked into God's light." Are you looking for a greater sense of purpose? Then give your life to Christ, because "Everything got started in Him and finds its purpose in Him."