A Life Well Lived

What is a life well lived?

Is it a life that seeks to succeed in this world?
Is it a life that achieves that ultimate dream? You know dream.
The dream where you have the perfect spouse, the perfect children, living in that house behind the little white picket fence.
Your life is perfect. Your marriage great. Your kids are exceptional.
You are super mom or super dad in this dream.
Your life is perfect.
Is this the life well lived?

What is a life well lived?
Is it a life that has the successful career?
You know, the career where you earn respect and climb the corporate ladder.
The life in which you are one day CEO or chairman of the board.
Is it the life in which you, the entrepenaur, have a successful business.
Or maybe a life well lived involves your politcal success or perhaps your political activism on behalf of some greater cause.
Is this the life well lived?

What is a life well lived?
Is it a life that is filled with fame and riches?
Perhaps a life well lived is lived in front of a camera, audience, or on a big screen.
A life well lived might be played out on TV or in movies. Maybe it requires going gold or platinum. Maybe a life isn't well lived unless it wins the Heissman, the MVP, or Olympic Gold. Perhaps a life well lived includes the constant attention of the paparazzi.
Is this the life well lived?

What is a life well lived?
Is it a life that is dedicated to finding a cure for cancer? What about the life that is dedicated to sending men into space. Does it require a Nobel prize? Certainly these are noteworthy achievements. Perhaps a life well lived is lived in service to one's country or serving others in need. Maybe the life well lived advocates human rights or serves his fellow man in need.
Though all noble causes, are these indicators of a life well lived?

What is a life well lived?
A life well lived isn't any of these things.
These aspirations, achievements, and noble causes, though some good, in and of themselves are not a life well lived.
A life well lived is a life lived for Jesus Christ.
A life well lived recognizes its sin and its total dependence on Christ for salvation.
A life well lived is a life that is completely given over to Jesus Christ.
Utter dependence, utter surrender, utter obedience upon THE ONE who is worthy.
Loving the Lord, loving other, and living for Christ -
this is the life well lived.

In His Love, Cathy