We live in a universe that did not have to be, yet is. Christianity offers a startling claim: this world exists because God, in the boundless freedom of His love and perfection, chose to create. What does that mean for us? If we are here not by cosmic accident but by divine intention—what is that intention? The answer changes everything. It reorders everything. To ask why God created is to ask why we exist and what is the purpose of our lives?