Do you ever ask your self; WHAT YOUR PURPOSE IS? What is the assignment that is placed upon your life? I find it very hard to answer that question, and many people don’t know what their purpose in this life is. I have asked many people this question and the majority says the have no idea. The other day I was driving to work and on my way there, I was talking to God about my purpose. I said “My purpose is make disciples, it is to proclaim the word to the nations”. At the moment I believed that Serving the Lord as a Pastor was my assignment. But I got it wrong, you see as human beings we believe that our main goal is to serve, serve, serve God, but we don’t see the big picture here. Yes God has called you to serve him in particular area but your main purpose on earth is given in Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
So then if God created man in he’s image, then OUR purpose in life is to be a reflection, a mirroring, an image of God himself.
There is something of that in Genesis 1. It tells us that our Creator made us, mirror-like, to image him, to draw attention to him, to display and represent him. We were made to reflect God’s staggering beauty and goodness so that the world can enjoy its Creator even more. THAT IS OUR PURPOSE IN LIFE.
So now you might ask. Why are we here? WE ARE HERE TO DISPLAY GOD’S GLORY BY IMAGING HIM.
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