To Live is Christ, to Die is Gain, What?

Paul said for me to live is Christ (to fulfill His purpose) and to die is gain because of the glory of eternity. We all have assignments from the Lord and Paul back in his day was given the assignment of experiencing and writing 2/3′ s of the new testament. At one point in life we come to the conclusion we want to do something more meaningful in life, leaving a strong legacy behind. Following our God given purpose will give us that great legacy. It will be built-in as you follow the plan already in place for you (Jeremiah 29:11). We live, move and have our being in Christ Jesus (Acts 17:28). We are living in this world but should not be of it. We are the salt of the earth providing a preservative for the world (Matthew 5:13-16). And without the light of life in christians the world would be totally run over by evil. God works through His followers, His believing Christians to help keep the planet from a totally dark age. To live is Christ, following His teachings and precepts puts us in a whole other realm of existence in the earth, we learn to live above the evil in this world (John 17:15). So even though we die, for a Christian it is gain because you’re done with the life struggles of this world and enter into the ultima rest with Jesus.