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THE IDEA OF PURPOSE

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                                       One of the most discussed topics in every facet of life is the issue or question of purpose, suddenly everyone wants to know why they are alive? What is in the spiritual manual of their lives? This particular questions among others has led to a spring of a new specialization in human behavioral question, invariably we have more motivational speakers and life coaches all round including the writer and it is not a thing of surprise.   But, before I continue I will like to look at what purpose is in the general parlance and what it is in the biblical context, generally purpose as a word means " the intention, aim or function of something; the thing that something is supposed to achieve", also it is "The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way". In the biblical sense, and in my opinion it cannot be more defined than the words of God in the book of Jeremiah 1:5 which I will reprodu