Does Your Life Count?

The first man, Adam lived 930 years and God had a purpose and an agenda for that. After the flood God said our years will be 120 years.  Although the number of years we live is important but is not more important than what we do with the years that God has given us. The latter is of great importance.  I therefore think that it is paramount  that we ask ourselves these questions:  "Am I  living according to the way God purposed ?" Am I using everything God has given me to my utmost abilities " Am I making a positive and a lasting difference? "  The  content of our lives on this earth is  of extreme importance.  We don't want to reach the end of our lives and say we have  wasted it.

John Piper says   "You dont have to know a lot of things to in order make a  huge difference for the LORD  in the world.  But you do need to know a few things that are great and be willing to live for them and die for them. People that make a difference in the world are  not people who have mastered a lot of things  , they are people who have been mastered  by a very few things that are very very great. If you want your life to count.  If you want your life to count , you don't have to high IQ , you dont have to  have a high EQ, you dont have to be smart ,  you don't have to have good looks, you dont have to be from a good family or a good school.  You just have to know a few basic , simple , glorious , majestic, obvious ,unchanging eternal things and be gripped by them and be willing to lay down your life for them." 

The life we have been we are given for a purpose and we supposed to make it count. We are stewards of our lives.  Let us not let it slip off our hands , let us not allow it to be used for the wrong purposes. In another place John Piper says" It is possible to waste your life. Few things make me tremble more than the possibility of taking this onetime gift of life and wasting it. Every morning when I walked into the kitchen as a boy I saw hanging on the wall the plaque that now hangs in my living room: “Only one life, twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.” And now I am almost 58, and the river of life is spilling over the falls of my days with tremendous speed. More and more I smell eternity. And oh, how I want to use my life well. It is so short and so fragile and so final. You get one chance to live your life. And then the judgment. I speak as a father who has children your age, and I am jealous with Jesus that they and you not waste your life."This is crucial people , let us not miss the boat.  Every day of our lives is meant to count. All of us were made to be world changers. We were made to worship.  Worship is not just singing but worship is doing the things that glory God the creator of the universe. We are meant to be reflectors of His glory.