Your overarching mission, whether or not you choose to accept it, is to live a life-time of learning. Every breathing human learns either through experience (the hard way -- based on trial and error) or through observation (the easy way -- based on the review of the experiences of others via eyes, ears, cognition). And guess what -- whether or not you acknowledge it, you are constantly learning the difference between good (actions that are helpful, love, life) and evil (actions that are hurtful, hatred, death).
Moreover, did you know that God has a plan for saving this world from the mistakes that we've made and are making? Did you know that each and every one of us has a part in God's plan whether we are aware of it or not? And did you know that THAT PURPOSE is why we are here? But we are not puppets or robots; we must make choices: some will be good and some will be bad -- that's life! Whenever we are awake/aware, every thing that we do or don't do is based on a choice! Yet we can not know -- on our own -- what our best choices should be. We might think that by simply doing it "my way" (choosing to collect as much as possible in the way of things, comfort, money) will make/keep us happy but in the final analysis (maybe even before that), we will realize that something is missing -- guaranteed!
Nevertheless, do not despair because we have been given the way to "rest assured" in our choices and the avenue to the guidance we need is prayer. "Prayer" as defined by my dictionary is simply "the act...of addressing God". We have been given this access to God even if we think that we have a minuscule hope of help from Him. [You wouldn't do that but God does! Why? Because He has told us that He does not want anyone to perish (if you are not sure about this or anything you are told about God, check it out via a Bible concordance).] We should certainly call on Him for specific "wants" and, knowing that His answer ("yes" or "no") will be based on what is ultimately best for us and the people we pray for, we can have peace and thank Him in anticipation of His answer. He will give us everything we need when we trust Him to do that!
Prayer is a primary element of a "good" (purpose-full) life. In his amazing book, The Purpose Driven Life, Pastor Rick Warren describes how to find God's special purpose for your life; thereby, you can know your personal passion, your greatest joy in life! Completing our two-way communication with Him by meditating on His counsel in the Scriptures is the only way to get to really know God and to know Him is to love Him -- our Creator and our Redeemer. "Prove all things!", I Thessalonians 5:21.
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