In a universe this big, does my life actually have a purpose?

We started a new series called Foundations, and we started where the Bible starts: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

First we looked up. There is a galaxy called MoM-z14, and its light has been traveling 33.8 billion lightyears to reach us — one of the oldest, farthest things anyone has ever seen. The universe is almost impossibly big. And Genesis says none of it made itself.

Then we walked through the opening days. Day one, into the dark and the formless deep, God spoke: “Let there be light,” and there was light, and He separated the light from the darkness. Day two, He set a sky between the waters. Day three, He gathered the seas, let dry land appear, and filled it with plants and trees that carry their own seed. Step by step, God was not just making stuff — He was giving everything its place.

Look at the pattern and you can see it. The first three days He made the realms — light, sky, land and sea — and the next three He filled them: sun and moon, birds and fish, animals and people. Nothing is leftover. Nothing is random. God made all things with purpose.

Paul says it plainly in Colossians: everything, seen and unseen, was created through Jesus and for Jesus, and in Him all things hold together. So we asked the real question — so what is our purpose? The old catechism gives the answer the whole Bible points to: our chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. That is the bigger story we are stepping into — creation, fall, redemption, restoration — and it opens with a God who made you on purpose.

So here is the one to carry home: if God made everything with a purpose, what did He make you for?

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