What We Leave Behind : A Life Worth Following - Philippians 1:21-28

The easy, attractive, pleasant things in life, are not the things worth imitating. The things that in the moment feel good and seem good to do, are not usually the things that we are called to do as followers of Jesus. What we want to leave behind is a life that people look back on and consider to be good and well-lived, but for most of us, that means doing the hard thing rather than the easy thing. In Jesus, we are given life eternal. That life we will have after death and when Jesus returns, is better than anything we could ever hope for in this life. He shows us that what it means to live in this world, is to hope in his promises, and to live a life worthy of those promises. Not a perfect life, but a life that is a witness and points to Jesus and his promises, and living for God rather than for ourselves. When we do that, we live the good life.