Making A Life VS Making A Living

Lately I have come to see the difference between making a life and making a living.
In our world today we fall into rush hour traffic in business and become conformed in
the world’s ways. When greed overtakes need, we become slaves to the society we live in.
We can seek brand names and forfeit our title as children of God. Our motives for working
can be geared towards building a name for ourselves instead of building up God’s Kingdom,
if we seek to receive instead of seeking to give. The difference between making a
living and making a life can be seen in the story of Martha and Mary. Do we grumble
at our workload because we are not appreciated or noticed, or do we give
of ourselves completely to God and do all we do for Him with a willingness to
serve Him in others? If we try and make a living for ourselves and our needs, we can at times
fail to surrender our inabilities to please others, and fall prey to bitterness when our needs
are not met by others. It is better to make a life i.e. to seek God in all our situations, and do
all we do for Him (even when we serve others), so that we are guaranteed to be fully satisfied
in His acceptance and love for us. Once we have achieved this ‘New Life’, we can strive
to give more of ourselves, our time and our talents willingly in servanthood to others in a
good attitude, (seeking to serve instead of being served). Making a life is seeking to serve God,
being Jesus to others and seeking Jesus in others. Making a living is seeking to serve self,
seeing what we can get out of life instead of seeing what we can give to life – to God.
EnJOY life to truly live.