You live your life in such a way that it is meaningful to you. You want to make a difference in the lives of your family. You want your life to count. When you are dead and gone, you want others to think about you in a positive way. And if the truth be told, you would like to impact as many lives during your earthly pilgrimage as possible.
There are lots of ways you can impact the world around you. Benjamin Franklin talks about influencing others when he wrote: “If you want to be remembered after you are dead, write something worth reading, or do something worth writing about.” Now, that makes a lot of sense. Either doing the writing or living a life worth writing about, will impact those living after you are dead.
The Word of God gives straight direction in telling you how to live a life worth remembering. “Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31). Scripture is telling you, that the actual things that you do daily really matter. It is not so much the actual activity itself, but the manner in which that activity is done. Everything that you do is to be done for “the glory of God.” Each activity has in its backdrop that it is done to glorify the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
For you to live a life to be remembered requires that the tasks you do, you do to glorify Jesus Christ. You do not do them to look good to others, to get a raise, or for any selfish motive(s). Your only concern is heavenly.
Jesus prayed on the cross and told the Father that He had glorified the Father with His earthly ministry. Jesus’ whole life had one intention – to glorify the Father. You should do the same. Live your life so that all that you do, you “do all to the glory of God!”
