The question, taken seriously

Does Life Have a Purpose?

Yes, and the fact that you are asking is itself part of the evidence. A universe of pure accident does not raise creatures who lie awake aching for their existence to mean something; that ache is strange if we are only stardust and chemistry, and honest if we were made on purpose. Christianity does not answer the question by shouting it down. It takes it seriously, agrees that a great deal of life can feel pointless, and then says the purpose is real because the world was authored by a Person, not thrown up by an accident. You are not a leftover. You were intended.

“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:”Colossians 1:16

“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”Ecclesiastes 3:11

“That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:”Acts 17:27

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”John 10:10

Let's take the question seriously

Let us not pretend purpose is obvious. Whole stretches of life feel like treading water: the same commute, the same worries, work that vanishes the moment it is done. Ecclesiastes, the most honest book in the Bible, walks straight into that feeling and refuses to flinch from it, calling so much of what we chase a vapor, a chasing after wind. If you have felt that the days are just filling time, you are not faithless and you are not broken. You are seeing something real. The question is whether that emptiness is the whole truth or a signpost pointing past itself.

The clue in the ache

Here is the clue most people miss. The same restless writer who calls everything vapor also says that God has set eternity, the world, in the human heart, so that no created thing quite fills it. That is why the achievements never satisfy for long and the finish lines keep moving. A hunger this specific implies a food. If nothing could ever answer the longing for lasting purpose, it would be a cruel joke that we feel it so deeply. Christianity says the longing is not a malfunction; it is a homing signal, and it is pointing you toward the One you were made for.