Do not neglect your gift.
—1 Timothy 4:14
Rich Karlgaard, former publisher of Forbes magazine, wrote an editorial titled Money and Meaning.
“Money is nice,” he said. “It can buy us time. It can strip away worry. But in the final analysis what makes us happy or regretful is not only money but if our lives have found purpose.”
Karlgaard said that he thinks a bad eternity would be to come to the end of life and discover we hadn’t spent it doing and being what were meant to do and be. “We insult our Creator when we don’t pursue what we were put on earth to do.
“Imagine facing the Creator at death and hearing the words: ‘I made you to do this. You pursued that. What a squandering of potential.’
“That,” wrote Karlgaard, “would be hell.”
Be and do what God
created you to be and do.