In our second devotional, 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. Our scripture for today comes from Jeremiah 24 verse 7.

Scripture 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.

We were made for relationship with our Heavenly Father.

We were made to know and be known by Him.

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

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

And it's only in living in relationship with God as our chief and central pursuit,

that our lives reflect his unceasing love

and devotion. For a long time, I've lived with 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,

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