The purpose we were made for

“Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.” 2 Corinthians 5:5
We know that God does nothing without a purpose. But sometimes we can struggle to see His purpose in our own lives. Here Paul tells us the primary purpose for which God has made us: “so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life” (2 Cor. 5:4). God has made us to live forever with Him.
This purpose then impacts upon how we should live: “So we make it our goal to please Him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad” (2 Cor. 5:9-10). Since we will live forever with God, being spared from an eternity of torment that we deserve for our sins, doesn’t this make you thankful? Doesn’t it make you want to please God with the new life that He has given you?
And this isn’t all that God has done. He hasn’t simply saved us to the extent of giving us a ticket to heaven, and left us to it. No, He has even more planned for us in this life: “God made Him who had no sin [Jesus] to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21). We aren’t just saved to be ‘good people’, but we now have the opportunity to become the very righteousness of God – free from sin. So next time you feel like your life has no purpose, remember these verses: you were created to spend eternity with God.