How will you measure your life?

Well, I watched a inspiring video today and I think that it is worth watching because you may find it links closely to you, your life and your after-life...

Therefore present to you "How will you measure your life" from Clayton Christensen

Human, as a creature of limited mind, often binds to the sense of hieraki, unconsciously.
We though that the more a person earns, the more succeed he or she is;
We though that the more a person involve in charity, the more holy he or she is or going to become;

HOWEVER, is that truly the truth?
How will you really measure your life? Is that really the way life is measured?
Does God measure you by the money you earn?
Does God measure you by the certificate you ever received?
Does God measure you by choosing the way you measuring yourself?


*If you don't think or not sure whether you are trapped by this sense of hieraki. Just have a flashback about how you treat the people happen to appear in your life. Well, that explains a lot of things in my life, especially when i look back how i treat people differently according to a hieraki in my mind.


Now, not to mention that everyone has different perspective in way or ways to measure our life. Even our parent, would have different opinion with us. Personally, there is few messages in the video above i'm agree with. First, we shouldn't focus on own achievement. In fact, God have put everyone of us in different situation, what we should do is make use of our character and ability to help the people around us.

Second, God don't measure us by the charity we have done. Nah, don't get into confuse or conflict. It is true we should make good use of ourselves to benefit people around so that our presence make difference to others. However, still this is the truth ----God don't measure us by the charity we have done. Often with our limited mind of hieraki, we taught the the more charity we done, the more the God is willing to open His heaven for us. But charity can't wash the record of sin. It is a topic about Sin vs Charity now.

Lets go on with some analogies. A criminal who killed is not allowed to wash his record by doing charity. A person who did a lot of charity is also inevitable to be judged too if he commit a sin.
THEREFORE, charity is obviosly not an aspect God measure us.

To be honest, i also used to measure myself with the knowledge i have, charity i have involved and joy i can bring to the people around. It is this limited mind keeps me away from understanding His grace.

8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 
9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9

 

Last but not least, it is inevitable we measure ourselves, but we have to understand the fact that God who is almighty don't use the same eyes of us to measure us. He don't even measures us, He loves us disregard how "valued" or "cheap" we are in human eyes. God bless..