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Purpose Defined:

To determine as some end or object to be accomplished; a settled resolution, a determination. Something a person sets before themselves as an object to be reached, obtained, or accomplished, an aim or intention. 4

Purpose (Grk) Prothesis

From pro “before” and thesis “a place,” thus, “a setting forth.” This word suggests a deliberate plan, a proposition, an advance plan, an intention, a design. 5

Everything we can see around us has a purpose. Everyone we come in contact with on the earth was born with a purpose. Meaning in life flows out of a sense of purpose. As we saw in some of the previous scriptures, those who had no purpose in life lived in frustration. They lived in a world which blew them around like a little rowboat in the middle of the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean. So are those who have no purpose in life. Life without purpose is one which is governed by outside sources, environmental influences, and the circumstances which arise at that particular moment. The Bible says in Proverbs 29:18 that a people who have no vision cast off restraint. They are not disciplined, have no focus in life, no direction, no real desire to accomplish anything great or significant. It is imperative that we not only know and understand what our purpose in life is, but we also start walking this purpose out. The following are some definitions of purpose taken from a few sources: 6

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