What Is My Mission?Намуна

The Mission of God’s People

Do you have a life mission statement? Are you on a mission? God has a specific mission for his people – one that can transform the way you look at your daily work.

God has called you from death to life, from darkness into his glorious light, for a reason. Part of that reason is what he wants you to accomplish in the here and now. To know what God wants you to do with your life, go back to where God’s grand story starts – Genesis 1.

When Moses wrote the opening chapters of Genesis, he was trying to prepare God’s people of his day for the mission they were created to fulfill, a mission we are still called to accomplish today.

God created man in his own image to care for and rule over the earth. He assigned this mission in the very beginning of creation for all of humanity. We have the same responsibility of Adam and Eve to exercise dominion over the earth.

This is man’s original calling. The gospel call is a redemptive return to a lost and forfeited calling: to being God’s image bearers in the world, a calling that has never had anything less than the entirety of God’s original, good creation in view.

In Genesis 1, God created the heavens and the earth ex nihilo, out of nothing, and all he made was good. It is clear that God delights in the work of his hands.

As man made in the image of God, the process of creating is a form of worship, a way for creatures to express the divine image in them by creating something out of something. Through our work we are called to be creative and productive, imitating our Creator. We should enjoy not only the work of God’s hands, but also that of our own.

Work in different forms is mentioned over 800 times in the Bible. Work is what you were created to do. The work in your daily vocation sustains the mission for which you were intended.

We should be on a mission, and that mission is to be who God intended us to be as we live and work in his world for his glory.

Do you delight in your work? What are the implications of today’s devotional material on your view of work?

Additional Elements

Understand your calling and unique design in order to better serve others with your gifts in this short guide, Discover Your Story: A Biblical Guide to Finding Your Calling.