Steve Jobs certainly had an interesting life. And a productive one. I don’t think you could find many who would disagree with that. After all, he had quite an impact on how we use technology now. In fact, I know a lot of my readers and listeners might be reading or listening to this on a device Steve helped create.
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And on October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs died.
His billions of dollars in net worth couldn’t save him from the devastating effects of pancreatic cancer. And that news is way, way sadder than most people realize.
In case you didn’t know, Steve was adopted. Because his biological parents dealt with some financial and cultural issues, they gave him up for adoption.
And after graduating high school…and not feeling fulfilled by traditional Christianity, Steve studied and accepted Zen Buddhism.
And I can tell you that, out of all the choices and decisions Mr. Jobs ever made, that was his worst.
All of his power struggles of founding, growing, and even losing Apple computers, pale in comparison to the struggle he might be facing now.
And all of Steve’s successes and money mean absolutely nothing to Steve now.
His biographer, Walter Isaacson, said Mr. Jobs “was the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now. History will place him in the pantheon right next to Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.”
And that might very well be true.
But it means absolutely nothing to Steve now.
Because he might be in his first decade of paying for all his bad choices and decisions. And that first decade is a tiny pinpoint of time compared to how long Steve will be paying.
And I say “might be”because I don’t know what was in Steve’s heart as he lay dying during those last days of his life. I hope he gave his heart to God before he stopped breathing. It would be awesome to see him in Heaven. But according to most accounts, he didn’t make an audible/verbal profession of faith in Jesus.
And Jesus is the only way to get out of spending eternity attempting to pay for all your bad choices and decisions.
Of course, that sounds like a cruel and uncaring thing to say. At least it does to everyone who rejects Jesus. But if I say Jesus is the only Way to eternal life, and I’m right, then all other religions must be wrong.
He is. And they are.
But if I share that information, and I’m wrong, then none of this matters anyway.
So…
I recommend you prove the Bible wrong.
But know that many others tried and failed.
You only get a little while to try
‘Cause when you die salvation will have sailed.
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