Seize the day is a popular phrase that means live life to the fullest.

The day on Truth for Life weekend, Alistair Begg echoes this sentiment, but with an

high on the spiritual legacy we're establishing as well, will yours be helpful or harmful?

This is another lesson for life that Alistair originally delivered to a college audience.

He's titled today's message Approved by God.

To Timothy chapter 2 and verse 15, Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved

a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

This of course is a verse that has been known to me, was given to me when I was 15 years

of age and moved from Scotland down to live in England and the Bible class that I was attending

at that time gave to me a Bible and in it the inscribed the verse 2 Timothy 215 in the King

James Version study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needed not to be ashamed,

rightly dividing the word of truth. By the time I was reading Jim Elliott's diaries and

journals I realized that he said while a student here at Wheaton that he was studying ultimately

for his AUG, namely that he was studying to be approved unto God. And we recognize how important

approval is, the approval of our parents and our peers, and certainly the approval of our

professors as we seek to fulfill the requirements that we are given. But ultimately as we live

our lives, the approval for which we look, which is actually eternal in its dimensions, is the

approval of God himself. And the words that are given by Paul to Timothy, who is his young

lieutenant, as it were in the faith, are the words of an older man now, who as you will note in

chapter 4 and verse 6, describes his life as being at the end. I'm already being poured out,

he said like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. The word there is an

allusis. It's the word that you would use of weighing anchor to head for home. It is the word

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