Steve Jobs was one of the greatest innovators of my generation, and it didn't take long for the people who loved their Macs, iPhones, iPods, iPads to begin paying their respects to this world changer.
Everyone would like to die believing they left the world a better place. There is something in all of us, a God-given desire, to make a difference in our world of family and friends. Is this not what Paul meant when he said in doing the ‘good works’ that God created for us to do, we would change our world (Eph. 2:10).
Steve Jobs' philosophy of life is summed up in the title of his 2005 Stanford commencement speech: "How to live before you die.” Steve Jobs had become a man of great reputation. But however noble it may sound, Steve’s Buddhist doctrine is an inside-out “truth” easily mistaken for the real thing. For the Bible says we can’t accomplish anything until we die to (give up)—selfish ambition, pride, and reputation (Phil 2:7). Only then, can we, as Jesus did (John 17:4), accomplish the things God has created us to do. Our commencement speech would be “How to die before you live.”
Paul’s secret to life is found in these words: “[I am] always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in [my] body… death works in [me], so life [can work] in you” (2 Corinthians 4:10-12). The only real world changer that ever lived was Jesus. So only His life in us can make us world-changers too.
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