A Well Spent Life Or A Spent Life

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy your life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that He has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in you toil at which you toil under the sun.

I am 30 years young right now, and if I live my 70 years I still have more years ahead of me than behind me. I still believe I can change the world; I still believe my children can turn out well; I still believe I can be successful. Any failures I have made up to this point, I still believe I have time to make them good. I still have time and energy enough to have goals and try and bring them about. However, there will come a day when I will not have time and energy and I will have to look back and see whether my life was a well spent life, or merely spent, vain? But how will I know? How will I evaluate my life?

1. In terms of where I am in Christ. I don't want to get to the end of my life and be clinging less to Christ than I am now.
2. In terms of what I have done for Christ. I don't want to get to the end of my life and see that most of what I did only profited me or my wallet. Did I show others the love of Christ? Did I do acts of love and mercy in His name? Did I use my time to advance His kingdom?
3. In terms of my relationships. I don't want to get to the end of my life and see that my family's and friend's relationships with Christ were not strengthened by me.

If I am to have purpose in life, I have to hold fast to the truth that the Gospel is powerful. Because of this I believe I can change the world, at least a small part of it. Of course it will not be me that changes the world, but He who is in me.