Living a full life

What does it mean to live life to the full? This was brought up at different occasions recently. We hear a lot about this. A life is considered well lived if it's lived to the full. But what is full? It seems that if you're always doing things and active, then you've a full life. In that case, my life is overflowing at the moment. Having a full life as such is often admirable and equate to a successful life. To many people, a successful life is about achievements may it be sport or other academic, business or personal pursuits.

Everyone has become so busy nowadays that we hardly have time to spend with people, do things for others or simply have some quiet moments alone. We are all caught up in our busy little schedule evolving more or less around us. You see, there's this notion that if my week is filled with things, that means I'm busy and that shows how important, significant or popular I am. We feel good when we're busy and the busier we get, the more we think we're a better individual. But how many of those activities are necessary? Does our busyness get us into heaven or draw us closer to God? Is our busyness self generated or God motivated?

I've been thinking about this lately and wonder how my life will look like under God's perfect will. Does God intend us to be busy like bees? Definitely not. Does he want us to have a fulfilling life? Definitely yes, but not in the way that the world portrays it. As Christians, we are to live for God and not ourselves. So, living a full life means living a life that is filled with God's purposes. In other words, we can do as much as we can in life; but if they aren't in line with God's will or serve God's purposes, then they are but self serving and pointless.