Who do you respect? If you could swap your life with someone elses, who would you have wanted to be? Edmund Hilary, Neil Armstrong, Mother Theresa, Michael Jordan?
We have a distorted way of judging other people. We think, "If only I was that person or had that person's money, I could...". What would you actually do if you had money on tap? Buy loads of junk like cars, houses, planes and yachts? Sure you would be able to do some cool stuff that you might not otherwise be able to but would that really be a wonderful life? You can't buy love but you attract a load of flies.
From a heavenly perspective, if you have led a single person to Christ, your life would be more fruitful and more valuable than any famous person who hasn't done the same. I won't name anybody because I don't know which famous people are or aren't Christians but how ever famous, rich, popular, talented or anything a person has been, however influential, whatever their famous legacy is, if they have not been instrumental in leading somebody from death to life, their life has had no heavenly value compared to your normal, run of the mill, average, obscure existence where you have actually led people to Christ. Can you imagine somebody like Simon Cowell with all his fame and fortune getting to judgement day and saying, "I wish I could swap my life with Luke Briner's so I had a lasting legacy" That doesn't seem like it would ever happen but in effect it will when we die and realise everything we had counts as nothing, only what we have invested in the Kingdom means anything!.
What does this mean? It means that the most glorious effect your life can have is taking people from an eternity in hell and leading them to Jesus who can take them into heaven. I would suggest you set your target at one person, always one person and then when they become Christians, target another. Don't try and save the world, do it one person at a time.
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