Main Thought
Have you ever wondered about God’s purpose for the World? It can be said that God’s purpose is simply to love and bless. Creation, and mankind in particular, is best positioned to experience God’s love when in right relationship with Him. Yet God’s purpose was derailed when Adam and Eve chose not to trust God and rejected His love. Mankind’s relationship with God was ruined. But God immediately set out to make things right! God promised that a Man, born from a woman, would crush the Serpent. This promise was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Jesus died for our sin, then was restored to life - which also restored our ability to experience God’s love. We begin to experience God’s love and blessings again when we hear and believe the Good News about Christ. God’s purpose also expands to others when they hear and believe. Thus, we can engage our place in the glorious purpose of God when we engage others with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Main Passages
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
- Genesis 1:27-31
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
- Ephesians 1:3-10
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
- Romans 10:14
Discussion Questions
What stands out to you in the Main Thought or Main Passages above?
How have you tried to find purpose in the past? What worked, and what didn’t?
Do you think that you’re fully engaging your role in the purpose of God? Why or why not?