You were created
with a profound purpose: To be a part of
the family of God as sons of God and as the bride of Christ. God, who is perfect and has no need, created
humanity because of desire. He had no need but He wanted. Within the fellowship of the Trinity, God said, “Let Us
make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…” (Gen.1:26) When we study
God’s interaction with the first man He ever created, we see our purpose with
greater clarity. God made man for
fellowship and communion with Himself, for the work of tending the garden and
taking dominion over creation and for fellowship and community with others. God made us for love. At the end of the day
the purpose of all of our lives is love.
The Bible begins
and ends with a wedding. In the book of
Genesis we see the first Adam marry his bride, Eve. In the book of Revelation we see the second
Adam, Jesus Christ, marry His bride, the church. In Ephesians 5 Paul refers to this marriage,
the joining of a husband and wife in one flesh (Gen 2:24; Eph. 5:31), as “a
great mystery… concerning Christ and the church.” Not only are we the bride of
Christ, we are also sons of God. In
Romans 8:15-17 it says that we have received the Spirit of adoption by whom we
cry out, “Abba, Father.” Our Father loves us incredibly. He sent His only Son to the earth to die that
we might live. The Holy Spirit, who is
the guarantee of our inheritance and adoption, cries out, “Abba Father” from
within us! God needed nothing but
desired to have you and I as His beloved children at the costly price of His
only begotten Son. We have been chosen,
predestined, accepted and adopted into the family of God.
With this as our
foundational identity, we were created to do good works. As Adam was given the job of cultivating and
tending the Garden of Eden, so the Father has created us for good works, which
He has prepared for us beforehand (Ephesians 2:10). We were created to think, relate, create,
have dominion, be fruitful and multiply, have fellowship with others, love,
serve, commune with God and worship Him forever. He has given us unique gifts and talents to
bring Him glory.
We were created
with the profound purpose of being loved by God, loving Him in return and
taking dominion in the earth through communion with God by love and obedience. The Father created us because of His desire and for His
glory. We were created to love God with
all of our hearts, souls, minds and strengths and to love our neighbors as we
love ourselves. In all that we do, if we
do not have love, we have nothing (1 Corinthians 13). We were made to love like God loves -
sacrificially, wholeheartedly and unreservedly –for the sake of love and for
His glory.
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