Many years ago as the body of David Livingstone, celebrated missionary doctor to Africa, was carried through the streets of London on its way to a final resting place in Westminster Abbey, thousands of people the world over mourned his passing. One man in particular wept openly.

A friend gently consoled him, asking if he had known Livingstone personally. “I weep not for Livingstone, but for myself,” the man said. “He lived and died for something. I have lived for nothing.”

Livingstone’s life motto was this: “I will place no value on anything I have or possess, except in its relationship to the kingdom of God.”

Callaway, Phil. Laughing Matters. Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2005, p. 83.