SELF DISCOVERY (A Godly Perspective)

And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
Acts 17:26 NKJV

Self discovery can go so far, honestly you can know your interests which happen to change occasionally, your temperance which are mostly life long, you can also establish your own values and work on your strength, but there is one thing I always believe is futile for the "self" to discover. Life mission, purpose and vision, yes you can, but it only goes so far when you consider that you did not create yourself.
If a microwave had intelligence, would it know what to do unless it read its user manual? Or asked the manufacturer?
Does a clay pot tell the potter why he made it?

“Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’? Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What are you begetting?’ Or to the woman, ‘What have you brought forth?’ ” Thus says the Lord , The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me. I have made the earth, And created man on it. I—My hands—stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.
Isaiah 45:9‭-‬12 NKJV

In the last post on self discovery, I highlighted that there are actually things about you that neither you or other people know about you, and that is your potential. And the only way to know them is to ask the one who created you.

              "God looked at Adam and saw a world. He looked at Abraham and saw nations. In Jacob the deceiver, he saw a Messiah, In Moses the murderer, God saw a deliverer. Can you imagine looking at a stammering young man and seeing the greatest leader in history? God saw a king in a shepherd boy." (Understanding your potential: Dr Myles Munroe)

Your life mission lies in your potential. Somehow clay does not know all that it can be. So in answering who you could be, who you truly are and what is your life mission, it is rather wise to go back to the one who created you. He knows what he has instilled in you. And he knows what he wants you to be.

Moses was disturbed by the fact that his people "the Israelites" were oppressed and his first reaction was to kill. He saw in himself a murder. Yes like you or me, he was disturbed by something, and he went out to change it. As Moses, our immediate solution may not be at all what God wants us to do or be. Forty years down the line, while in God's plan Moses was training to be a leader as he was tending to the flock of his father in-law in the wilderness, to him (Moses) it may have been a life time career, he hadn't seen in himself what God had put in him, he was to himself a murderer, a refugee, an exile, a man dependent on his father in-law's household, he was a stammer and a good for nothing.

God had a very different definition of who Moses was. To God he was;
          1) A leader
          2) A deliverer
          3) A covenant bearer
          4) A judge
          5) A miracle worker
          6) A writer
          7) And A friend of God.

As much as finding your life time mission through self examination and finding the most meaningful events of your life so you can discover your identify, your career and life satsfaction, truly I don't know how a clay pot can know why it was made or tell the potter why he made it in the first place.
Ask him and he will answer. For God is near to those who seek him, those who seek him with all their hearts. And again he said......
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you...."
Matthew 7:7 NKJV