Hey everybody. You know, Pastor Rick Warren often says you were made by God and for God. And

until you understand that, well, life will never make sense. Thank you for joining us today on

Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. And in our series called God's Vision for the rest of your life, today Rick will continue

in his effort to help you discover the unique purpose and vision that the Lord has for your life.

Okay, here's Pastor Rick, and this will be part one of a message called Embracing the Vision,

the Purpose Driven Life.

God has never created anything without a purpose.

Every plant has a purpose, every rock every has a purpose, every animal has a purpose, every planet, every star. And if your heart is beating, it means God has a purpose for your life.

Now if you want to know the purpose of your life, you have to start with God. I realize that in our culture, a lot of people say,

you want to know your purpose? Look within. Like, trust the force, Luke. The only problem is,

that doesn't work. I tried looking within. I didn't like what I saw. If you knew

could discover your purpose by looking within yourself, we'd all know it by now. It doesn't work.

You see, the truth is, you didn't create you, so you can't tell yourself what you were created

for. Does that make sense? God says, I made you, and I'm the one who can tell you what your purpose is.

If I were to hold up an invention that you'd never seen before, and I said, tell me the purpose of this invention.

Well, you wouldn't know what the purpose of it is unless you either, A, talk to the inventor, the creator who made it, or B, read the owner's manual.

The only way you're ever going to know the purpose of your life is either A, talk to the creator

who created you, or B, read the owner's manual. And so today, we're going to look at what God

says are the purposes of your life.

Now, if you'll open to the first page, there's a couple of verses from the Bible there.

The first verse says this.

It is in Christ that we find out who we are and what we're living for.

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