![]() I send it out, and it always produces fruit. He compares His word, which is His character, to the purpose of precipitation. Isaiah 55:11 is a common scripture that reveals this part of God’s character. He constantly moves forward and everything is done for a reason. He enjoyed rest for the sake of maintaining that level of productivity. Per Genesis, God worked more than he rested during Creation and His rest was very intentional. We have an innate desire to create that stems from God’s creative character, and we create by being fruitful in our lives. Part of our purpose in life is to use this empowerment to sustain life through stewardship, including caring for our children and the earth. We, too, are creators empowered by God we are called to be creative and to work on this earth. He had the ability to see from beginning to end, and He made His vision reality. Genesis 1:1 gives us a powerful image of the Creator who created the heavens and the earth. Understanding His character helps us see ourselves as made in His image. Genesis 1:27 says, “So God created human beings in his own image.” Identifying ourselves with God is awfully difficult to do if we have not explored the character of God first. ![]() To do that, we must connect with the Creator - that is to identify ourselves as made in the image of God. If the meaning of life is to connect with purpose, we must connect with our source. The Purpose and Meaning of Life: Seeing Ourselves in God We have this intrinsic, burning desire to know what we are made to do, but before can get on board, we need to understand why we are here. The meaning of life is connecting with the purpose of life. ![]() If we break this down further, what we are really looking for when we seek out the answer to this is our identity and purpose. We seek to answer this question: What is the meaning of life? We are looking for what life is made up of and what it means for us. That’s because we aren’t looking for the shell of what life is. Oddly enough, a textbook definition like the above actually has the opposite effect of what we are looking for in these times. If only it was this easy, right? Typically when we search for the meaning of life, we are searching from a painful and isolated place. The existence of an individual human being or animal. The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.Ģ. The textbook definition of “life” is written as:ġ. Is it about our contributions or our children? That must be at least a part of it. Is a good life defined by accomplishments or possessions? Surely not. “It is clear that any ambition of this humankind to be particularly significant in the grand scheme of things looks silly.Life is such a loaded word. In one of these zillions of planets, as probably in many others, chemistry became complex and evolved in all sorts of critters, one of which, not particularly good in surviving, is humankind,” says physicist Carlo Rovelli at Aix-Marseille University in France. “Now we know that the cosmos contains at least a million billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars, most of which have planets around them. Yet none of this story of happenstance helps us in finding the kind of meaning we crave: meaning in significance. WE CAN attempt to answer the question of why we exist in a literal sense: by tracing our human story back through the whorls and rifts of evolution, through the contested origins of life on Earth and the collapsing cloud of dust and gas that became our home planet 4.5 billion years ago, back to the birth of our universe some 13.8 billion years ago – and perhaps further still.
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