You have plans for your future. Those plans may be financial goals, occupational goals, relationship goals, spiritual goals, or some other goal. Whatever the goal may be, the fact is there is some driving force in your life that motivates you to do the things you do on a day-to-day basis. Doing that, from day in and day out, will determine your accomplishments at the end of your life. Anthony Campolo took a survey of ninety-five-year-olds. He asked them, “If you could live your life over, what would you do differently?” They said two things, “We would reflect more” and “We would do more things that would last beyond our lifetime.” That gives you a good plan for how you can reach the end of your life and feel like you have accomplished something.
Some of the loneliest people on the planet are those who live only for self-fulfillment. The Holy Scriptures teach over and over again about the way to contentment while on earth is to live for Christ. One of the many scriptures that teach this principle is seen in 1 Corinthians 5:15, “and He died, for all, that they who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.” This verse tells you how not to live your life and how to live your life, as well. First, not that the verse tells you not to live a self-satisfying way of life. The next part of the verse tells you the correct way to live your life, which is to live it to serve Christ.
Let’s make sure that your life counts for something, once you are no longer on this earth. Start today into putting into practice the Biblical principles that the Lord gives you to do. Then when you are a ninety-five-year-old you will be able to say that your life has accounted for something, because you took time to reflect on what is really important. Start today!
