Make a lasting difference in the world

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by a few great things. If you want your life to count, if you want the ripple effect of the pebbles you drop to become waves that reach the ends of the earth and roll on for centuries and into eternity, you don't have to have a high IQ; you don't have to have to have good looks or riches; you don't have to come from a fine family or a fine school. You have to know a few great, majestic, unchanging, obvious, simple, glorious things, and be set on fire by them.

But whatever you do, find your passion and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts.

Acts 20:24: "Do not account your life of any value nor as precious to yourself, if only you may accomplish your course and the ministry which you have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God." One thing mattered: Finish your course, run your race.

Philippians 3:7-8: "But whatever gain you had, you can count it as loss for the sake of Christ. Count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus your Lord. For his sake suffer the loss of all things, and count them as nothing, in order that you may gain Christ."

Here is the way to be shaken of God in this moment to waken in you to a single passion for a single great reality that will unleash you and will set you free from the small dreams and send you to the ends of the earth?

Only boast in the cross of Jesus Christ. The word can be translated "exult in" or "rejoice in." Only exult in the cross of Christ. Only rejoice in the cross of Christ. Let this be your single passion, your single boast and joy. In this great moment called TODAY let the ONE THING that you love, the one thing that you cherish, the one thing that you rejoice in and exult over be the cross of Jesus Christ.

Don’t waste your life on fatal success. Want your life to count for something great for eternity. Want this with all your heart. Don't coast through life without a passion for the eternal things nor ever reaching for the lost. Don't waste your life. It is so short and so precious. "Only one life, it will soon be past. Only what's done for Christ will last."