“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.”
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”
“Death . . . is Life’s change agent.”
—Steve Jobs, Commencement Address at Stanford University (June 12, 2005)
Much will be said tonight and in the days ahead about this entrepreneurial genius. From a spiritual perspective, this much can be said with certainty: Steve Jobs, created in the image of God, was a remarkable example of God’s common grace in his aesthetics and creativity and productivity.
I know that Jobs was not a professing Christian through most of his life. I can only hope that in the final days of his life that someone had shared the gospel with him (whether in days or years long gone by now or even in his final moments) and that the very grace of God that so shaped him, changed and converted his heart. I do not know and I'll leave that up to God.
HT: Justin Taylor