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*Made for More*
We’re going to talk today about how God has uniquely created us with specific purpose in our lives.
There was a story about a guy who basically got to the end of his rope.
He was going to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and commit suicide.
He got up, climbed over the railing.
Just before he was about to jump off, a police officer grabbed him around his neck and pulled him back.
The guy said, “Look officer, you have no idea how meaningless my life is.
I have no purpose for living.
I have no reason to continue on.
Just let me jump.”
The police officer was pretty kind-hearted and said, “I’ll tell you what.
I’ll make a deal with you.
I’ll give you five minutes to tell me all the reasons why your life has no purpose.
Then you give me five minutes to tell you all the reasons why life does have purpose.
If at the end of ten minutes you still want to jump, I wont stop you.”
He thought that sounded like a deal.
He took five minutes and told him all the reasons why his life had no purpose.
The police officer took five minutes and told him all the reasons why he thought life did have purpose.
At the end of ten minutes they stood up, joined hands and jumped off the bridge together.
The good news is they were talking about purpose.
The bad news is they didn’t discover a purpose that could sustain them in their lives.
I look around our culture and our city and I see hundreds and thousands of people who are wrestling with purpose in their lives.
Many of them have yet to find a purpose that can sustain them.
All of us will come to a place where we ask what I call the, “purpose questions.”
Why do I exist?
Why am I here?
What on earth am I doing here?
What’s the point of my life?
When we ask those questions sometimes it’s during transition periods in our life.
Maybe when we’re tired or weary.
Maybe it’s during a midlife crisis?
Or when we’re leaving high school and going into college, facing new challenges in a new day.
Maybe it’s when a boyfriend or a girlfriend breaks up with us and our hearts are broken.
We could be going through a divorce.
Regardless of the situation, we will, at some time, ask questions of purpose.
In the Bible, the Old Testament gets to this.
There is a word in the Old Testament that’s translated “meaningless or lack of purpose” (‘habal’; vanity; breath) and that word could literally be translated like a sigh.
Have you ever been there?
Maybe it’s when you think your relationship with your partner is getting better but when you get together you go back to the same old arguments, saying the same old words in the same old ways.
All that progress you thought you made goes out the window.
You’re frustrated.
Maybe it’s when your child takes your laptop computer and decides it would be fun to pull all the keys out of the computer and spread them around the kitchen.
Sigh.
When we’re tired and weary or maybe when we aren’t getting enough sleep or if we’re going through a difficult time; that’s when we begin to ask the purpose questions.
Why am I here?
What’s the point of all this stuff called life?
The good news is that God created us with purpose.
"The Lord has made everything for his own purpose..." [Proverbs 16:4, God’s Word]
It’s for His purpose.
Not for my purpose, not for your purpose, not for my pleasure, not for your pleasure but for His pleasure and His purpose He’s created everything.
He had a plan.
In other words, if you’re here today and you’re alive, you’re breathing and your heart is ticking that means that you have a purpose in your life.
God created you with a purpose.
You are not here by accident.
You didn’t just show up.
You had a divine appointment to be here.
God wants you to use that purpose to impact others for Him.
For the next forty days we’re going on a journey where we learn together what our purpose is, individually and corporately.
We’re going to explore together during our small group times, our memory verses, and our devotionals how God has wired us up with purpose.
It’s going to be an awesome time.
The psalmist began to get a picture of his own personal purpose.
It started when he began to realize that he was God’s masterpiece.
God had created him uniquely and individually for His own purpose.
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well."
[Psalm 139:13-14, NIV]
The psalmist is saying, “He knit me together in my mother’s womb.
You were right there in the beginning, God.
You created me and crafted me individually, purposely, and specifically to accomplish what you want to accomplish through me in life.”
That’s an amazing thought.
We are not some random collection of biological particles and cells that have become human beings.
The Bible is saying that God got right down in there and He tweaked our DNA.
He created us individually and uniquely for a purpose.
First thing we are going to look at this morning is this: God broke the mold on us by creating you uniquely.
The psalmist says we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
/Wonderfully/ could be translated: “distinct or marked out.”
The meaning of the word is that this person is realizing their uniqueness in life.
We’re all different and we’re all unique.
God broke the mold on you!
Look around the room.
We’re all of different make up, different sizes, some have more hair, and some have less hair.
Some of us are different colors and nationalities.
All of it is designed and wired by God for a purpose.
He loves variety.
It’s a cool thing about God.
Do you realize there are over three hundred thousand species of beetles?
Come to church and you learn new facts all the time.
Three hundred thousand species of beetles!
You would think that ten thousand species is enough.
But God loves variety.
You take the average cubic foot of snow and there is eighteen million snowflakes in it and not one of them are alike.
They are all unique and different.
"How many are your works, O Lord!
In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures."
[Psalm 104:24, NIV]
Just think about the human body and the wisdom that God put into making the human body.
Take something as simple as our foot.
There are twenty-six bones that make up our foot.
Do you realize the average person that plays a full game of soccer puts an accumulative force on each foot of a thousand tons?
That’s per foot.
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