Why did God create me?

Humanity has always searched for the reason we exist. In our times we have tried to explain human life scientifically. Many believe that humanity exists as the effect of random causes that led to the creation of humanity. This still does not answer the question as to WHY we exist. In different terms we ask “why do I exist”. The Catholic Church gives us the answer: we are created to know, love and serve God so that we may have eternal joy with him. You are not the product of chance but created out of love to know love and be loved. He doesn’t create us because he’s lonely or out of his neediness. God is perfect in himself and desires our creation for our sake, not his own. You were created because God wanted you to exist.

We are created to know God. God creates us with a soul which enables us to reason, to understand and seek the truth. God has given us this ability to seek him out. Humanity alone possesses the intellect so that we may come to know God. You were given a mind to pursue God and find him in his works.

We are created to love God. God doesn’t simply love. God is love (1 John 4:16). Love isn’t something God does but who he is. He exists as the perfect love between Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In coming to love God, we learn to love as he does. God loves all because it is his very nature. You were, are and always will be loved by God.

We are created to serve God. God wills all things toward that which is good. In serving God, we are to cooperate with his plan so that goodness may flower on earth. Although we are damaged by sin, the call to serve God as an agent for goodness and righteousness remains at the heart of the service of God. We serve God not for our own salvation but to bring about the salvation of the world. God invites you to share in his work of bringing goodness to the world.

We are created to be happy with him forever. This is not the happiness that comes from something like chocolate, which dissipates after the chocolate is gone, but real and enduring happiness that can only be found in God. The longing of every human heart is to be loved. In God we find that love, and in heaven, not only will we feel it perfectly, but we will return that love perfectly and will have learned to love one another perfectly as God loves.