“Everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him” (Isaiah 43:7).

Created For My Glory

Ted Engstrom (The Pursuit of Excellence) offers the following story: An American Indian tells about a brave who found an eagle’s egg and put it into the nest of a prairie chicken. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life, the changeling eagle, thinking he was a prairie chicken, did what the prairie chickens did. He scratched in the dirt for seeds and insects to eat. He clucked and cackled. And he flew in a brief thrashing of wings and flurry of feathers no more than a few feet off the ground. After all, that’s how prairie chickens are supposed to fly.

Years passed. And the changeling eagle grew very old. One day, he saw a magnificent bird far above him in the cloudless sky. Hanging with graceful majesty on the powerful wind currents, it soared with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings. “What a beautiful bird!” said the changeling eagle to his neighbor. “What is it?” “That’s an eagle – the chief of birds,” the neighbor clucked. “But don’t give it a second thought. You could never be like him.” So the changeling eagle never gave it another thought. And it died thinking it was a prairie chicken. (James S. Hewett, Ed. Illustrations Unlimited, Tyndale p. 344)

Everyone has been created for the glory of God. The Lord formed man to show His grace and love and to demonstrate His glory as Creator. It does not matter the color of skin, nation of origin, or gender; all men are created in the equality of God’s glory. Man has a purpose. He was created to be the glory of God. On the sixth day of creation, God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). Only man was made in his image. Animals do not bear the image of the divine. Only man was created to be the “eagle.” What Satan has done is convince men they are nothing but a “prairie chicken,” and most die believing the lie.

Jesus died to save you from your sins. You are special to God because you are His divine creation, formed to show His glory. As eternal creatures, we share the image of the divine to be like Him, live for Him, and live with Him after death. Don’t let the world convince you that you have no worth or value. There is so much to know about the God who formed you for greatness. He loved you so much that He gave you, His Son.