LIVING WORTHILY

SCRIPTURE: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:  Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day:” – 2 Timothy 4:7-8a
 
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Departing from this life with minimal regrets is one of the greatest achievements in life.
 
One of the greatest achievements of anyone on earth is to come to the end of life and be ready to depart the earth with minimal or no regrets. As a young medical doctor, I came across several persons who at their point of exit from life were not ready to die. 
 
Bishop T. D. Jakes told the story of his father who was diagnosed of a terminal disease. As life was ebbing out of him, he told his son, “Son, I have been trying to study what life is all about all these years; now that I thought I have known what life is all about, there is no more time to live the life”. 
 
Beloved, there are many people who wasted their lives on vanity and only realized that when it was time to really live, there was no time to live any longer.
 
The question is: what is most important in life? This is crucial because it is possible to succeed on earth and be a failure in eternity. Departing from this life with minimal regrets is one of the greatest achievements in life. So, living to give God pleasure and adding value to other lives is living worthily.  
 
Remember this: Departing from this life with minimal regrets is one of the greatest achievements in life.
 
ASSIGNMENT(S): 
1. Go through the lessons again. 
2. Take a sober reflection on your life. Are you living for the flesh/self or for God and humanity? 
3. Make up your mind to live worthily.
 
PRAYER: O LORD, deliver me from a life of self-centeredness and vanity. I make demands on the grace, LORD, to live to give You pleasure and benefit humanity in the Name of Jesus.
 
FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: LIVING WORTHILY.
 
DAILY READING: Numbers 26:52 to 28:15, Luke 3:1 to 22, Psalm 61:1 to 8, Proverbs 11:16 to 17.
 
QUOTE: You have only one life to live and you must make sure it matters. Culled from, 365 WISDOM CAPSULES by Dr Paul Enenche.

 
TODAY IN HISTORY: MARCH 18, 1911: 
Theodore Roosevelt opened the Roosevelt Dam in Phoenix, Arizona, the largest dam in the United States till date.
 
AMAZING FACT: 
The only dog that doesn’t have a pink tongue is the chow.