Life on Purpose

Most everyone wants to live their life with purpose. Everyone wants to know the purpose of human life on earth. God has set eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11). That means that everyone knows that they are meant for something more than just mundane temporary existence. We are created in the image of God. Being created in the image of God means that we are a reflection of God’s life. We have a will and feelings. Your life will change when God is a real person with real feelings to you. He loves and cares about you. Do you love and care about Him?

The image of Christ is something that God wants to develop in us. We have lost the image of God in one sense. It is certainly true that everyone is made in the image of God today (Genesis 9:6).

But the perfect image of God has been lost in the fall. Sin took that away. And God is looking to recreate us in His own image. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10). “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; look! all things have been made new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

“But you have not learned Christ this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, because the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:20-24).

We can be recreated in the image of God. And the purpose of your life is to be like Jesus. God wants us to be conformed to the image of His Son. “Because those He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters” (Romans 8:29).

That is what your life is about. That is what my life is about. Let God make you into the image of Christ. Let God change you from the inside out. God will make you a new creation. A brand new creation.

Everything is new when you come to Jesus. Rejoice in that. Nothing in your past matters. All that matters is that you have Christ right now.

       Dewayne Dunaway