My life has a glorious purpose!

God is not only the creator of all things, but all things have been made to reflect the glory of God. The Bible tells us that when God created the world, everything was good. He also commissioned Adam and Eve, as stewards of his creation, to look after and care for everything God has made and loves. God gave it to them to enjoy the beauty and majesty of what he has made. God created the world for us to live in and get pleasure from, yet under God’s rule and in ways that bring only glory to him.

Psalm 8: 2- 8 takes it even further. God who is the creator of the wonderful universe has, most of all, you on his mind and cares for us even more than he cares for anything else he created. God has also given us, the human race, the highest place of honour and responsibility in his creation. Whilst the rest of creation serves God with complete obedience, it does so because it has no other choice. It was made to do so. But we as humans serve the Lord, because we use our free will to choose to live only for the honour of his glorious majesty.

Ps 8: 3 – 8: When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honour.
You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

God has created us and our world with a purpose. He loves our world. But the Lord loves us even more and gives purpose to our lives by gladly accepting our worship, praise, obedience and stewardship of everything that the he holds dear.

God has not left us to ourselves to discover the purpose of our lives. We are reminded that our lives are valuable, because God himself commissions us and through his expectations of us, he gives value to our lives.
You are more valuable to God than the entire universe. God who declares his divine glory in all of his creation, here tells us that we are more valuable than everything else he has made. That means that as men and women made in the image of God, we reflects his glory more than everything else in all his creation. And we reflect his glory, because, through faith, we know that he is our Creator, our Father, our Redeemer and our Comforter.

Our Creator God and Saviour has given our lives purpose, meaning and value.
We find this purpose by gladly submitting to our calling to only live to the glory of God.
Whatever we do. Anywhere we go! Whatever the task is we are called to fulfil today.
It has meaning, because it reflects the glory, the majesty, the power, the holiness and mercy of our Lord! And God invites us to enjoy all of this, because he takes care of us!