Why Me?
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Genesis 1:26 (NIV)
You are more important than earth-level existence. Becoming educated and employment-placed and relationally connected and economically weighted… These are earth-level pursuits. These are earth-bound preoccupations. But while we may have preoccupations that are earth-bound, we can never lose sight of the fact that each one of us also has a transcendent meaning. We have a meaning that is above going to work every day, above working until 65, having a retirement celebration, and moving somewhere that doesn’t get snow. Here’s what Scripture says: God called you and ordained you before you even made your physical appearance in creation.
How else can you understand yourself if you don’t know who created you? You’ll be stuck on earth-bound issues rather than connected to your transcendent meaning in life. Believe in God because God created you. God loves you. God sustains you. He provides for you. You grow in God because it’s the only way to understand your purpose at a transcendent level. Why are you here? The answer lies in knowing God.
If you want to know why you have been created, it’s because God, standing in nothingness, decided He wanted to create something that looked just like Him that He could fellowship with. And you are the result of that. So when you come into church every weekend, one of the things you ought to thank God for is that God made sure no accident would prevent you from being there. Only Providence could have determined that you would turn out to be the you that you have turned out to be. And in light of that, is God not worthy for us to enter his gates with thanksgiving?
God wants to spend your life with you. Please don’t bypass that fact. God wants to spend your life with you, letting you enjoy going around resembling Him and sharing in His creativity. You were created to know Him and fellowship with Him.
