PURPOSEFUL LIVING

“I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.

And that which I can do,
by the grace of God,
I will do.”
~ Dwight L Moody

Many of us can measure our successes rather easily - by the kind of car one drives, the size of one’s bank account, the clothes and jewelry one adorn, and the kind of house we live in.

Significance is more difficult to measure than success. Significance is when you add value to others. It is making the world a better place. How would you determine the impact you have on a person’s life? Do you base it on how many lives you have touched or how well you have impacted them? And what time do you make measurement? When they are 21, 40, 60, 80 years old? Or does history make the judgment - at 100, 500, 1000 years after a person is gone?

Yes, it is very difficult to measure one’s significance. So what is one to do?

Keep growing. And do something every day to make yourself better so that you are able to give. Therefore whatever talents, resources and skills you have, improve them so that others can benefit from the overflow of your life.

Keep giving, no matter how little. Keep sowing, no matter how small a seed. That can be the source of a big harvest in the lives of others.

And let God worry about keeping score.

The choice is yours.