‘Only one life, it will soon be past.
Only what’s done for Christ will last.’ C .T. Studd
I wonder what percentage of our life is done for ourselves, what percentage is done for the approbation of others and what percentage is done for Christ. We might not like the answer if we knew. Trying to gain the approval of others is a thankless task. For one thing we will never gain the approval of everyone. Someone will always disagree with us. We can’t make people like us. People are fickle, one minute they will approves of us, the next we are their enemies. And many people will move away from our lives. How many people are on our Christmas card list this year that were on it 30 or 40 years ago? People move out of our lives, by death or location.
Living our life for ourselves, might please us for short while, but soon it will pall; there is no satisfaction in only pleasing ourselves. But we want our life’s endeavours to last. We are working for eternity.
‘Some will use gold or silver or precious stones in building on the foundation; others will use wood, or grass or straw. And the quality of each person’s work will be seen when the day of Christ exposes it.’ 1 Corinthians 3:12