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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, my name is Andrew Latimer. I'm a Church of England minister at Grace Church in Greenwich
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Back in 2005, Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, he gave a speech at Stanford University
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and it's been listened to, I think, 30 million times on YouTube and it's been a great inspiration
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to lots of people. And in the speech he said this, remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me
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make the big choices in life because almost everything all external expectations or pride
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or fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only
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what is truly important so Steve Jobs his big message to us is to try and live with a whole
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life perspective. He wants us to make decisions which make sense in the context of the whole life
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we live. And it seems very good advice as far as it goes. Jesus, he encourages us to go one step
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further and to live life not just with a whole life perspective, but from a whole eternity
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perspective. Jesus said this, do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal
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life. He's saying there's lots of things that we can pursue in life which are basically perishing
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food that spoils. But instead Jesus calls us to run after what actually lasts and endures
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a relationship with our creator that not even death can snatch away. And that's what it means
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not just to live with a whole life perspective but with a whole eternity perspective
