We were created for God.

We weren’t accidents. We’re not mistakes. There’s no higher purpose in creation; to be made that He might lavish His extravagant love on us.

I remember talking with my youth pastors about my desperate need to know God’s will for me. I was aching. I had to know that I was in His will; that I wouldn’t stray from His plans. They simply responded that, as I longed after God’s heart, and kept my eyes on Him, I wouldn’t miss out on Anything that He had for me. It sounds overly simplistic, but this revelation broke so much in me. It broke the lie that I had to be enough; the fear that I would let Him down; it broke me. In this simple declaration, His heart for me was being uncovered.

His will, His heart and plan for us, is that we know Him.

That’s it. That’s the goal. The finish line; that our lives would endlessly, relentlessly pursue Him.

In the Bible, God’s will is broken down into two steps; that we know Him, and that, in the knowing Him, we live like Him.

God’s plan from the beginning of time was that we be with Him forever. He created us to choose Him. His heart longs for us to long for Him. Evidence of His wild love is that we were created to NEED to come to Him moment-by-moment, all the time. His delight in us is so fierce that He gave it all (His life) so that He could spend eternity (every moment) with us. 

In fact, His love is so ridiculously reckless that He doesn’t just want fellowship with us in Heaven, He wants fellowship with us now. There’s not a moment that goes by that our Father isn’t desperately yearning to spend with us. Our sin breaks His heart because it tears us from our purpose; from Him. God requiring us to live holy, pure and Christlike lives is Him telling us, “I want to be with you!”

That’s the reason. That’s the purpose of the Cross. The reason for our very existence.

It’s not about us being good enough. It’s not about our needing to complete a goal. It’s not about us needing to tread on ice that we may stay within His heart.

God, through Jesus, has already made us good enough. We are the goal. His heart is, and always will be, for us.

That is our hope.

Feel Him scream it in the wind. Hear Him shout it in the thunder. Feel Him whisper it in the sun on your face:

“You were made for Me”

1 Col 1:16 Mark 12:30 Is 41:10 John 6:29 1 Tim 2:4 John 6:40 Gen 3:8 John 10:27 Psalms 37:4-5 2 Peter 3:9 1 John 1:9 John 15:5 James 4:8 Rom 6:23 John 14:23 Matt 22:37 1 John 4:8 Jer 31:3 1 John 3:1 Matt 28:20 Zeph 3:17 1 John 4:16 Hosea 6:6 John 14:6-9 1 Chron 16:11 Heb 4:3