Many people may ask: Why am I living? What is the meaning of my life? Why did God create man?

So why did God create the world? The world was created for man, as we see in the Book of Genesis. What a wonderful world He created! And all of this was for man. But why did God create man? There is no single, definitive answer to this question. There are many opinions. I am simply sharing what God has revealed to me.

Since man was created in the image of God, I believe that we can learn a great deal about God by looking at human beings and their relationships.

“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.’”
(Genesis 1:26, ESV)

In general, what happens on earth is a reflection of what takes place in heaven:

“For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself.”
(Hebrews 9:24, ESV)

“These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.”
(Colossians 2:17, ESV)

Therefore, I believe the answer may be found in these verses:

Genesis 2:18–22

“Then the LORD God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’ Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them… But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man… and the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.”
(Genesis 2:18–22, ESV)

In my view, something similar happened in heaven. The Father wanted to find a suitable helper for His Firstborn—our Lord Jesus Christ. But none was found among the angels. I do not know why. Perhaps angels were too powerful as beings. So powerful that one of them even conceived the idea of becoming equal with God—and a third of the angels followed him.

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! … You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high… I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.”
(Isaiah 14:12–15, ESV)

Christ needed a different kind of bride. What kind? Again, we can understand this from the relationships God established between a man and a woman.

First of all, loving and obedient to their husbands:

“to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands.”
(Titus 2:4–5, ESV)

Weak:

“showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel.”
(1 Peter 3:7, ESV)

And trusting in her husband rather than in herself, not striving to become independent from him.

“Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice… In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women.”
(Isaiah 32:9–11, ESV)

God requires the same things from His people—the church, which is the bride of Christ.

Love:

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
(Mark 12:30, ESV)

Obedience:

“Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them.”
(Luke 6:47, ESV)

Trust in God:

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”
(Proverbs 3:5, ESV)

Entrusting all cares to Christ:

“casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
(1 Peter 5:7, ESV)

By nature, men are given (according to God’s image) the desire to have beside them a weaker vessel—a wife whom they can care for, love, and protect, someone who will lean on them.

“For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the LORD.”
(Jeremiah 13:11, ESV)

And to the woman (Eve) God said:

“Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
(Genesis 3:16, ESV)

Therefore, the purpose of humanity’s creation is to choose a bride for Christ—a bride who is weak, loving, obedient, trusting only in Him, and grateful to Him for everything.

The church is the bride of Christ:

“Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready.”
(Revelation 19:7, ESV)

This bride is so precious to Christ—He loved her so much (and the Father as well)—that it was for her, not for the angels, that He gave His life.

“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us.”
(1 John 3:16, ESV)

The Purpose of Life and the Reason We Were Created

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