October 12 2025

Sunday October 12

God Has a Purpose and Plan For Your Life

Ephesians 2:8-10

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

God has a plan for your life. He has a purpose for your life. God has a will for your life. That's what we're looking at here in Ephesians 2:10. “For we are His workmanship”. We're His poem. We're His masterpiece, “created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them”. That we should walk in them. Walk in what? The good works that God has prepared for us to walk in beforehand. In eternity past, God chose that we should glorify Him by walking in His “good works”.

Every human being was made in the image of God. That's why it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from, what your ethnicity is. It doesn't matter what color your skin is. My friend, you are of tremendous value to God. God loves you. God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for you. It doesn't matter whether you're a murderer or you're the best person in the community. God loves you. God wants you to know His will and plan and purpose for your life. That's one of the most amazing things in all the world. That is that we know and can know the will of God, God's plan, purpose for our lives.

You say, "How can I know that? How can that take place?" Ephesians 5:17 even hints about this very same theme where the apostle Paul wrote, "Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is." God’s will for our lives is not some mystery. God has prepared it beforehand and that we should walk in it. I love Psalm 139 that tells how God created us with purpose. He created us and He has us in His mind and in His heart always. He knows everything about us and still yet He still cares for us. The Bible says He cares about the sparrow and notices when it falls from the sky. God feeds the birds of the air, the fowls of the air. God is in charge. God loves His creation.

But of all of creation, He loves the human beings that He created in His own image more than anything else in eternity. The most famous verse in scripture, John 3:16, tells us that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son”. That word world there is every human being that's ever been created and placed on planet earth. God loves you.

Now how do we know that will for our lives? I love Romans 12:1-2, where Paul writes: “I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God that's only your reasonable service and do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may know and prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God”. Then in 1 Corinthians 2:9 we also read: “But as it is written, eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 

How do you find and know the will of God? First, as you read in Ephesians 2:1-3, by realizing that you're a sinner. You're condemned. You're depraved. You have no hope. Then in verses 4-7, “But God”! God is working for you. He loves you. He cares for you. He has redeemed you by the blood of His Son. He has forgiven you! God has called you out of the grave clothes to live a changed and exchanged life. His life living through you. God exalted you to sit in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Now you can find that will, that perfect plan and will of God for your life. As a believer the first aspect of the will of God for your life is to live a holy life. It's God's will that we be sanctified, that we be set apart (1 Thessalonians 4:3). That we live a life that pleases Him as we yield ourselves totally to God (Romans 12:1). Then we're not conformed to this world, but we live a life that's different than the world lives because Christ is living in us. Then you will know, you'll prove, you'll understand what the will of God is (Romans 12:2).

My friend, when you know what that is, you have purpose in life. You have a plan and a mission in life to be on mission with God! How exciting that is! Oh, I'll never forget the day I began to find and understand God’s purpose and plan for my life and the difference it has made for me. God will do the same for you too, if you let Him!

God bless!