50 years. That was God’s gift to Michael Jackson. Fifty years to make a mark, to make a difference in this world. Millions of articles will be written in the coming weeks about the legendary life of Michael Jackson. No doubt his mark was enormous. Indelible. But, most of you reading this have the same question I do. And, that is as big as his life was… “will it leave an eternal mark?” I don’t know Michael Jackson personally (shocker) so I won’t begin to judge his life. I do know my life intimately and I’ve been asking myself questions like this a lot lately: “how am I honoring God with my life?” “what am I teaching my kids and my wife about the love of Christ?” “how might God use me to reach hundreds, thousands or millions for Him?”
Michael got 50. How many will we get? We can’t answer that. So, why not this question:
“what are we doing with the time we are given?”
That truly is the real question isn’t it B Kruck. What we do with our lives and what we allow God to do through our lives are the only things that matter, the only things that will truly last.
i’ve been thinking about this lately too. the funny thing is, i was thinking about claire’s life and how short she has been on this earth but how huge of a difference she has already made. i think sometimes we can’t understand our own impact.
but of course we should try to live the best life demonstrated by Jesus. i’ve been remembering what rob bell described in velvet elvis about Jesus being the ultimate reality. it’s so simple sometimes it slaps me in the face. if i am a new creation, led by the Spirit and living for Christ then why does it seem like i am always thinking of what i need to do instead of just being what i already am?
anyway, this now ends deep thoughts by nicky.
John…it is truly about God living through us…
Nicki … i think you hit it when you said, “if i am a new creation, led by the Spirit and living for Christ…”
if that is all true about someone then the “doing” takes care of itself. You are correct, it is about letting Christ change us and then living out of that change.
thanks for the deep thoughts from nicki!
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