Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Whether you know it or not, you have a calling.

You may have not thought about it exactly in those words, but God has a unique plan

and purpose, and it's not a secret. In fact, you have the potential to make a difference in ways

you've never imagined. That's today on Living on the Edge. Stay with me.

Chip Ingram has counseled thousands of people over the years, and he says two of the

most dangerous beliefs a person can hold are these, that their life has no purpose or meaning,

and that happiness is just one more achievement away.

Well, both are lies.

Today on Living on the Edge, Chip takes us into Ephesians to show us that before you ever

did a single thing to deserve it, God called you. Not to a set of rules, not to a religion, but to

himself. If you have your Bible handy, go ahead and open to Ephesians Chapter 2. Here's Chip Ingram.

I'd really like to start a little bit differently if you would pull out your notes and go to the

back page. I'm going to start at the very end. And there's two misbeliefs there, and I want to

share these because these perhaps are the deepest misbeliefs that both myself and my wife has had in a season in our life.

Misbelief number one is that I am not wanted or needed by anyone. My life has no purpose or meaning.

I'm a victim of an unfair, uncaring world that brings me pain. Four and a half years before I met my wife,

she believed that with all of her heart. Many of you know her story. She came from a very

difficult home life, abandoned by an unbeliever who went someplace else with another woman that he'd been seeing

for a year or so. Two little babies, no money, broke, and her heart broken. And she believed that.

And dangerous emotions and thoughts went through her mind that apart from those two little babies,

she probably would have not stayed around.

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