I’m presently enjoying a book about CIA operatives performing their duty on a factual mission in Afghanistan, at the time they were the only Americans on that country’s soul. It is exciting to read in detail the events and thoughts which transpired.
Do you fear walking through the threshold of death, looking back, and having no monumental events or occasions pepper your life? What is it to live an extraordinary life?
I see many souls scurrying about thinking that they must accomplish great things lest their life be lived for naught. Who determines greatness? Better still, who is it that judges a life’s worth while it was activated on earth? The Christian sees that the answer to both is God, the Creator, the Almighty, the God of the Bible, YHWH.
Certainly then, understanding who it is that deems a life well spent we should look to his followers. We see missionaries, ministers who sacrificed their very blood for others in lands not their own among a people often loathed by their own. These men and women are fire works on the sky of humanity; people who did more for salvation and social justice or legality and nation building than a thousand others combined. But is this what the God of the Bible endows as a worthy life? Perhaps our conclusion of a life lived well is incorrect, informed by unmerited malcontents.
God does not ask that we turn the world upside down. God does not ask that we be movers and shakers in our society. God does not ask that we be neat. God demands that we exhaust our abilities in displaying the genuine affection we have to Him who gave us all we have and to treat our fellowman in that light. The soul who does this will happily lie down in his grave even if he accomplished nothing in the eyes of the world around him. And happy will be his God to receive him in His presence. In the eyes of this God the way we do and the obedience we have always trumps visible or numerical results. Which do you live by?
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