You do not truly know what anything is until you know what it is for.

1. Life’s purpose(material is a summary from Frank Sheed’s“A Map of Life: A simple study of the Catholic Faith” • You do not truly know what anything is until you know what it is for. • Complete knowledge demands a knowledge of purpose. • Example: The man who discovers a razor • Therefore nothing can be used aright until its purpose is known, the person who uses anything at all without such knowledge is acting blindly.

2. Meaning well is not a substitute for knowledge of purpose • Perfect way to know purpose of a thing is to find out from its maker. • Any other method leaves to many loopholes for error. • Example: Man (we cannot use ourselves correctly, nor help anyone else, till we know what we are made for) • Meddle, tinker, mean well, etc • Save in a limited way, we cannot help.

3. Let’s digress • Two ways anything can come to be • Intentional: someone intended it • Accidental: merely happened by chance • Intention has purpose • Accidental has no purpose • Humanity needs to ask: Are we here by intention or accident?

4. Our Faith Tells us • That man was made • Made by an intelligent being, who knew the purpose of his own action • God who made us, knew what he made us for, and further told us what he made us for. • Accepting His word then, allows us to know our purpose, and live intelligently. • Short of this knowledge: Intelligent living is not possible

5. So….Apart from knowing what God has in mind for us when He made us… • We cannot completely know on our own • The scientist can tell us what we are made of • The scientist cannot tell us what we are made for

6. In other words • Short of God telling us, we cannot be told; and short of being told, we cannot know. • There is good news! God gave us • Reason • Revelation