In our second devotion seeking to discover God's pursuit of our hearts, today we're going to spend time looking at our true purpose, why you and I were created.

Every day, every moment is an opportunity to choose the purpose for which we're living, but only living in line with our true

purpose has the power to produce an abundant life. May God reveal his purpose behind our

creation today, and may he make central to our lives his pursuit and love in a fresh way. Welcome to the

First 15 podcast.

We were made for relationship with our Heavenly Father.

We were made to know and be known by him.

The one fact is meant to define both our identity and our actions.

It's meant to lay the foundations on which we live, think, feel, and do,

and it's only in living with relationship with God as our chief and center pursuit that our lives reflect his unceasing love and devotion. For a long time, I've lived with the wrong things

at the center of my life. I've allowed earthly success, admiration of others,

identity in my works, and an image of perfection to be the things that drove me moment by moment.

And in those pursuits, I only found disappointment, exhaustion, and unfulfilled longings.

Even within the context of Christianity there is a temptation to be led by that which is worldly,

that which will never satisfy. But in God there is another way, and the love of a grace-filled

heavenly father, we can cease striving and start enjoying life founded on relationship with our

Creator. Jeremiah 24-7 says, I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord,

and they shall be my people, and I will be their God,

for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

Within each of us is a longing to ground ourselves

and our identity as the people of God.

We are created to live out the powerful knowledge

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