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What Is The
Purpose Of
Life
The Bible speaks to this in
Revelation 4:1l, "Thou art worthy, 0 Lord, to receive glory and honor and
power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
created". We were created to give God pleasure and remarkably it gave God
pleasure to create us!! What a liberating truth.
"In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth", Genesis 1: 1.
We are told in Isaiah 45:18 that God created the earth to be inhabited. The
mind-boggling truth of Scripture tells us that God created man "in his
image" and He gave us dominion over what He had created (Genesis 1:26). We
are to be fruitful and increase and subdue the earth (Genesis 1:28). We are to
do "culture", developing every area, every sphere of life and to
bring honor and glory to God in all that we are and all that we do.
All things that were created
before man were created for man's use and control. Even the angels were created
as "ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be
heirs of salvation" (Hebrews 1:14). Our purpose in life is to develop the
earth under the authority and supervision of God. We are not autonomous, we are not the measure of all things. We
are servants of the living God.
We are told in Isaiah 43:7,
"...I have created him for my glory, I have formed him: yea I have made
him". Life is not random, chance or meaningless. It is ordered, defined
and given meaning by the Creator, "for in Him we live, and move and have
our being" (Acts 17:28a).
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