"God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago." - Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT
God gives us salvation, not because we have earned it, but because He loves us. As this passage says, we can have great purpose simply because of who God made us to be.
But God didn’t just create us as His masterpiece just to look at us. He created us so that we can do the good things He planned for us even before we were born! God’s plan always starts with loving Him and then spreads out to loving and serving others in the world.
According to this passage, why did God create us?
