The Good Life

What is the big question we all as humans ask? Is it who we should marry, where to go to college, what we want to do for a living? Those all are big decisions that bring lots of big and hard questions, but I think that to encompass what we all wonder the question is; What is the good life? What I mean by the good life is the life that it worth it, that means something, and has purpose.

Something that I find to be interesting if I am right is we don't directly ask ourselves that question often. Even though we don't normally ask what the good life is we are always searching and trying to find it. Some think its being rich, others think its about doing good, being kind to others, saving the earth or whatever. I must say that while some of those practices are good, they are not and do not lead to the good life.

Do we really see what the good life is? Or are we blinded by what society tells us it is each and every day? Society and popular desire says that the good life is when you prosper, when life is plentiful, when life is fun, when you are famous, when you are known and loved because of what you do. The world tells us that the good life is about getting the best for ourselves. The world asks; Its our life isn't it, so we should do want we want and what makes us happy.

You know what I have found? I have found that the good life is when you are in deep harmonious relationship with Christ. He is the one who makes your life the good life. Furthermore my relationship with Christ is only right when it is no longer me living, but Christ living inside of me. I think we all as Christians have this problem, we think we know best and we think we know what the good life entails.

When we live out Christ's desires we are living the good life. When we see that it is not our own life, but Christ's we live not according to the flesh, but in connection with the Spirit and according to God's Word.

Christ's life is the standard for the good life, but we are unable to live it without Him because we are sinners. The closer we get to living for Christ, living in deep relationship with him, and living the life He lived on earth, the closer we get to living the good life. In reality the answer to the long asked question of what the good life is can be profoundly reduced to one the simple answer. The good life is when you are in deep harmonious relationship with Christ and are not living your own life, but the life that God has for you.