By, IN & Be

What is your purpose? What are you living for? What do you desire to be & become?

I think many of us struggle answering this question. We struggle knowing our purpose. We struggle figuring out what our life is all about & what we should do with it.

Purpose is easily found in Genesis 1:27 which tells us how God created man in HIS image. We were created by God in His likeness. Created to look like Him. Created to be like Him. God created nothing else in His image, and nothing else created us in its image. We were made to be like Him.

And this was no accident. We were CHOSEN. Ephesians 1:4 tells us that even before God created us, we were created in HIS image. Even before we took our first breath, we were chosen to be like Him. Even before man was first created from the dust, God had purpose in creating us to be like Him & live like Him. To be holy, blameless & righteous just like Him.

We are God's prized creation. Ephesians 2:10 informs us that "we are God's workmanship. Created in Christ Jesus to good works" from the beginning of time. From the beginning, we were made in the image of God to live like Jesus. No accident. Straight purpose.

Purpose is this --> Created BY God from the beginning IN the image of Himself to BE like Jesus forever.

That's purpose. Be like HIM.

JV