The Remedy For A Wasted Life
We all want our lives to matter. We want to live life to the fullest. We want to look back on our deathbeds with no regrets. But we all have those moments where we wonder if we are spending our lives well. We question whether our day to day activities are meaningful. We wonder if we are truly leaving behind a good legacy. There is a story in the Gospel of Luke that tells of a man who, by all appearances, wasted his life. We don't know his name, only that Luke simply calls him a criminal. We don't know what crimes he committed, but we do know they were bad enough to warrant the death penalty. Anyone who deserves the death penalty clearly has wasted his life. This criminal was crucified right next to Jesus and one other criminal. The other criminal was mocking Jesus, claiming that if He were truly the Son of God He could save himself from death. The Gospel Author Luke writes, "But the other criminal protested, “Don’t you fear God even when you have been sen