What do you want out of Life?

Everybody wants something. Prosperity, fame, fortune, acceptance. What do you want?  At one time I thought I wanted a  successful career that would bring plenty of money, a great title and the power to go with it.  I wanted and needed to prove myself to others.  I placed my value based on achieving these things.   The problem was the more I got the less it satisfied.   

At the peak I found myself working 60 plus hours a week with a six digit income, a great title, power, etc.   The problem?  I wasn’t fulfilled because I really wasn’t making a difference.      At a missions conference I heard a missionary make the following statement:   “My greatest fear is not of failing, but of succeeding in something that really doesn’t matter”.    It hit me like a two by four.  I was succeeding in areas that really did not matter in my life.   I realized that when I got to the end and it was my time to be put in the dirt, that what I was doing with my life would not make a difference.  

God used that phrase to change my life.  I realized that the only thing that matters in this lifetime is fulfilling God’s plan and purpose for my life.    The greatest thing that could be said about my life is what God said about King David.   The Bible says that “David served God in his generation and then he died”.   That is what the abundant life is all about, serving God in His way and His will.

Now my time, energy, talent and treasure are used to further God’s kingdom and to change lives.   My desire is to become fully surrendered to God.   I now pride myself not on what I can accomplish but what God can do in me and through me if I humble myself to Him.

So what are succeeding in?   Will that really matter in 200 or 2000 years?  What you do for God now will echo in eternity!