Discovering Purpose: The Creator's Design in Our Lives

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Do you believe that? This used to be something that people would just take for granted and say, well, of course, everything was created by God. Look at the design. But we're growing up in a different time, and now we're told that this might not be an option. [00:00:18]

We live in a real busy time with a lot of multitasking where we jump from one thing to another. When's the last time you really just sat down and were quiet and really thought through, is there a purpose to my existence? And that's what we want you to do, is to just think. [00:00:58]

You are standing on a giant ball that is two-thirds water, spinning at a thousand miles an hour. So just think about that for a second and think about the fact that there's a ball of fire 93 million miles away and somehow never burns up, and that's what is keeping us warm. [00:01:17]

The Bible says the exact opposite, that there are no accidents. In fact, God says even in his creation, in Romans 1:20, it says ever since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities and his divine nature have been clearly seen so that men are without excuse. [00:03:03]

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There's no speech nor are there words whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth and their words to the ends of the world. [00:03:40]

The Creator who made all of this is glorious. He's beyond us. You and I are not the center of the universe. It doesn't revolve around us, but there's someone different. In the Bible, when the Bible would describe this being, it wasn't just another version of us and a bigger version of us. [00:04:19]

God dwells in unapproachable light. So there's this being who dwells in unapproachable light that I can't even exist if I were to look upon his face. I would just die. That's how far beyond us the Bible says he is. [00:05:10]

When Isaiah got to see some sort of glimpse of him, he says there were these high angels who were covering themselves up. Even the high angels took their wings and covered up their feet, their faces, and they were screaming holy, holy, holy, and everything was shaking. [00:05:45]

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of Heaven and Earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. [00:06:18]

He determined exactly when we would be born and where we would be born, and he would orchestrate the situations and circumstances in our lives so that we might feel our way towards him and find him, though he's not far from each of us. [00:07:07]

According to the Bible, there's a reason why I'm here right now while you're watching this right now. It's not coincidence. He says he determined when you would be born and he determined exactly where you would live, and the purpose of that was that you might feel your way toward him. [00:07:52]

I wonder if that's what this is all about, that this might be the reason why you're right where you are today, is that God orchestrated this, and this was another step of you feeling your way toward him and finding the creator of all of this. [00:08:24]