WHAT WAS I MADE FOR?

Part 2: Made for Belonging

May 4, 2025

 

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (AMP) He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.

 

Made for Belonging

 

1. Belonging is .

 

Genesis 2:18 (NIV) The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.

• You were made by a .

 

Genesis 1:26 (NIV) Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule…

 

John 17:21 (NIV) …that they may all be one, just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You.

• Your purpose is tied to .

 

Genesis 2:22 (NIV) Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

 

Ecclesiastes 4:9–10 (NIV) Two are better than one… if either of them falls, one can help the other up.

• The is God’s for belonging.

 

Ephesians 2:19-22 (Ph) So you are no longer outsiders or aliens, but fellow-citizens with every other Christian—you belong now to the household of God. Firmly beneath you in the foundation, God’s messengers and prophets, the actual foundation-stone being Jesus Christ himself. In him each separate piece of building, properly fitting into its neighbor, grows together into a temple consecrated to God. You are all part of this building in which God himself lives by his spirit.

2. Belonging isn’t .

 

Genesis 3:9-10 (NIV) But the Lord God called to the man, ‘Where are you?’ He answered, ‘I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.’

Homo incurvatus in se

“Man on himself.”

 

• We .

 

Proverbs 18:1 (ESV) Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.

 

Romans 15:7 (NIV) Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you…

• We carry .

 

Proverbs 19:11 (NET) A person’s wisdom has made him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

 

• We resist .

 

Proverbs 12:1 (NIV) Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.

3. Belonging is a .

 

Hebrews 10:25 (GNT) Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage one another all the more, since you see that the Day of the Lord is coming nearer.

• Choose to each other.

 

Ephesians 4:31-32 (NIV) Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

• Choose to in each other.

 

James 3:9 (NIV) With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness.

 

• Choose to .

 

Ephesians 4:15 (CEV) Love should always make us tell the truth. Then we will grow in every way and be more like Christ…