a significant life.

Someone texted me this last year:

A SIGNIFICANT life

comes not from

possession
position
pleasure
prestige
or power

it comes from humble hearts and the OBEDIENCE OF GOD.

I think I know why he sent this to me at the time. I remember we were in chemistry lab one afternoon and a friend of ours was going off on me on why I shouldn't become a nurse. He was telling me about how one day he would be my boss, how nursing isn't as great as medicine, and so on. It was basically about how I should become a doctor because of position, prestige, and power.

I've kept those words that are italicized above on a post-it beside my desk so I'll never forget them. There are so many people in the world that seek those things: they want many possessions to show off, they want the right position in society or in the workplace, they seek pleasure to make them happy and entertained for awhile, they want the prestige of a title, and they want the power for their self-glorification and self-respect. But what does that do for them in the end?

There are so many examples from many well-known people in the world that those things don't bring happiness. Why? Because God is not in the midst of it.

What will your life mean if your heart is not humbled and obedient to God? Your happiness, your possessions, your position, your pleasures, your power, and your prestige that you sought for will soon pass away and at the end of the day,

you'll just feel empty.

Don't ever turn away from the truth. Don't ever doubt what the Lord has done for you and the light that you have. You have been blessed with something that many in this world are seeking after--a full and significant life because you have the Lord in your heart, mind, and soul.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. 1 John 2:17