Made: Recovering The Life You Were Designed For

Sermon: In The Beginning
Genesis 1:1-31, 2:1-3

We spend much of our lives trying to answer the question, “What am I supposed to do with my life?” We search for purpose in our work, our accomplishments, our relationships, and even in what we do for God. But Genesis takes us further back.

Before it tells us what humanity is called to do, it shows us what humanity was created to receive.

God forms the world and fills it with life. He prepares a place where humanity can flourish, and only then do we enter the story. Before we accomplish anything, we are blessed. Before we prove ourselves, God gives us a place. Before we do anything for God, we are invited to be with God.

This is where Genesis 1–2 reaches its relational climax. Creation does not culminate in a finished world, but in God dwelling with the people He has made. Humanity’s first full day is the seventh day, the day God rests and settles into His creation. Creation’s destination is communion: God with humanity and humanity with God. Our first experience of being human is not achievement, productivity, or proving our worth. It is presence.

Sin fractures that communion. Humanity reaches for life apart from the One who gave it, and the people created for God’s presence begin hiding from Him. Yet God does not abandon His creation. The story of Scripture is the story of God continually moving toward us until, in Jesus, the Creator Himself steps into the world He made. God comes into our brokenness to bring us home to the life we were created for.

Maybe purpose begins there. Not with asking, “What am I supposed to accomplish for God?” but with asking, “Am I learning to live my life with God?”

Because the deepest purpose of your life is not something you have to discover, achieve, or earn. Before you ever did anything for God, you were made for life with God.