I sometimes hear people ask, various people from my 6 year old child to a 70 year old friend. “What is the meaning of all this?”, “why are we here?”, “why did God make us?”, “What is the purpose of all this?” The answer to these questions is found woven within scripture, the bible retells the story over and again. Jesus said more than once that the scriptures are about him (all of them).
But I think the same answer can be found or alluded to within us our makeup. Woven by the creator who created us for that purpose in the first place. It can be found in our DNA, in the design of our bodies and in our very instincts.
Humanity is driven for a romance, driven to build a home and a growing family.
I was on a walk this evening and the sun was almost set, it was cold and windy and the snow was drifting. The trees were dormant yet still alive. I could see the first star and I thought to myself what does all this tell me about God? Then I prayed and asked God what should I learn from the massiveness of the earth and the universe about God himself?
We are hard wired by the creator who is currently building a place for himself to lay his head. Building a family to love, building a bride for his son, building a body to fill the universe with his own image. We like him do the same instinctually all over the earth. We see a drive for a spouse, a family, a home, our bodies are built for this.
Our instincts are clues to God’s purpose and therefore our purpose.
God is extremely resolved to see his purpose fulfilled, that purpose and that resolve is summarized in the person of Jesus Christ.
Gods Enduring Resolve
T. Austin Sparks and Frank Viola have called it Gods Eternal Purpose, Davern Fromke called it Gods Ultimate Intention. Others have called it other wonderful things.
I feel like the Lord is leading me to begin writing and thinking about what I call Gods Enduring Resolve. Enduring because it is so long (to us) in development. God does not change, no matter how many centuries pass. Resolve because God seems absolutely fixated and resolved on seeing his purpose fulfilled.
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