Death is inevitable, but we must decide how we will spend our lives: will we follow God’s path? However we spend our time on earth, it should involve spreading God’s love and the reality of a living hope.

I read an interview recently with Rosalind Picard, who is an MIT professor. She talked about how she always identified as someone who was really smart. And in her mind, really smart people didn’t believe in God. However, she kept running into people who were smart and also believed in God. So, she decided to run an experiment: she decided to try to believe. And suddenly, she says, everything changed. She saw everything in a new way, as if everything had changed from black and white to color. Picard calls God the “greatest Mind in the cosmos—the Author of all science, mathematics, art, and everything else there is to know.” What a beautiful description! In her work, she uses her mind and heart to support students and do research, and all of it is done to the glory of God. She is able to do her work better because of how Christ helps her see the world.

As Ephesians says, we are “created in Christ for good works, which God prepared beforehand.” He knows when we will be born, and when we will die. What we will do in the meantime is our choice. He has created us to do good work while we are on this earth, so let’s use our minds and our hearts to reach our world for Christ.

This is Luis Palau.