People possess the opportunity of achieving astounding success. And we tend to pin our hopes on becoming more like them, desiring to experience the self-worth we instinctively know they must possess. We’re constantly presented with a eulogy of these lives, “So and so lived to a ripe old age, here is a list of his or her achievements. What a life of honor; what a life well-lived!”

     At the risk of being a bit morbid, now in my later years I’m much less enamored with the prospects of life on this earth, no matter how fulfilling and rewarding it might appear to be. Life without Christ boils down to fear. In portraying the ultimate freedom of the follower of Christ, a life truly well-lived, the Book of Hebrews affirms in verse 2:15: “and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.” What we once were in this world, in Christ we no longer are.

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