God’s Purpose for Mankind: A Series
God Created Mankind for a Purpose: for us to have a personal relationship with Him.
Mankind was created by God with and for a purpose. Don’t believe that you can’t know God, that your life has no meaning, that you are no different than an animal, or that there is nothing after this life. Those are all lies from Satan.
This series on ‘God’s Purpose for Mankind’ is taken directly and in context from the Bible, God’s message to and for His only creation that was created in His image — mankind. If you would rather follow some complicated, ridiculous fallacy that someone else has made up, I encourage you to go back to Scripture and see what God says about this subject. It is clear and simple.
Today our series begins. God Created Mankind for a Purpose: for us to have a personal relationship with Him. Period.
All God’s creation up to the point of man being created was made for us. Think about it. God as an eternal being chose a point in His eternal timeline to create the universe, then earth, so we would have a place to live. In His final act of creation, He stated, “Let us make mankind in our image…” (Genesis 1:26). No other part of God’s creation was made in His likeness or image.
God says that the former created things, including earth, will pass away (2 Peter 3:10) and a new Heaven and new Earth will be created. For what purpose? For God’s eternal created being — mankind — to have an eternal place to reside with God, in relationship with Him, forever (1 John 2:17; Revelation 21:1; Revelation 22:5; 1 Corinthians 13:10).
Only man was created in God’s likeness (trinity/eternal) after conferring with the full Godhead (Gen 1:26–27). He then inspired/breathed His breath into him, and man became a living being (Genesis 2:7) to have rule/dominion/stewardship over the other living things, not dominion over each other (Gen 1:28; Gen 2:15). Man is an image-bearer of God and no other ‘living creature’ received God’s breath of life.
During the creation event (Genesis 1:14), God created the sun, moon, stars, and planets — for what purpose? — to be used by mankind as signs to mark time (divide day and night), to mark sacred times and seasons, and days and years. If there was no purpose for mankind to be created, there was no purpose in creating the rest of creation.
After Adam and Eve’s fall (Genesis 3), God records that as He walked through the Garden of Eden in the cool of the day, He searched for Adam (Genesis 3:8) to fellowship with him.
As a relational God, He made Eve specifically for Adam (Genesis 2:18, 23) so Adam would have someone of his “own kind”, uniquely created apart from the animals to be with someone who is also eternal and with God’s breath in their lungs.
God created mankind for an eternal relationship with Him. No other form of creation is loved unconditionally so that God would send Jesus to fully pay for restoring our relationship with Him. No other form of creation is designed to love and serve God through eternity.
God repeatedly tells us He loves us and wants us to spend eternity with Him. God sent Jesus because He loves us and wants us to live forever with Him (John 3:16; Romans 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9).
Does this not show our value and worth to God, more so than any other of His creation? He provided salvation to restore our relationship with Him that sin destroyed. He sacrificed everything to bring us back into a relationship with Him.
No other part of God’s creation was chosen to be His own for eternity (Ephesians 1:11) and presented to God by Christ at the start of eternity as God’s inheritance (Deuteronomy 32:9) so that we might be the praise of His glory (Ephesians 1:12).
If you ask the question, “Why am I here?” It is because God values and wants you to live with Him:
• FOREVER in relationship with Him
• FOREVER in His eternal home
• FOREVER in fellowship — joy (fun), food, worship, service/ministry
Revel in the fact that God wants a relationship with you — for eternity — and it can begin now!
