The dictionary's definition of good is:
1.
morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
2.
satisfactory in quality, quantity, or degree: a good teacher; good health.
3.
of high quality; excellent.
4.
right; proper; fit: It is good that you are here. His credentials are good.
5.
well-behaved
And so on. With these definitions in mind, Have you lived a good life? Think about this, number 3 says high quality. Is your life high quality? Is it excellent?
I recently read a book called Amos Fortune. It starts out in Africa with a young boy of about fifteen being crowned chief of his village. Next the 'white men' come and take aut'mun (Amos) and about half of his people into the jungle and make them walk for days on end in all weather. Next, the white men put the African men and women into pits in the ground with little food or water, killing off the weak ones. After about a month, they move the live people onto a boat for over two months, lying on their sides, like spoons to be sold in America as slaves.
When aut'mun is sold his name is changed to Amos and he is bought by a caring household where he learned to read and write and speak in English. Amos stays with this household until he is in his late thirties when he is sold to a new family. In this family Amos learns to be a tanner. He enjoys this job very much and is very good at it. Amos stays with this family until he is about fifty. From the time that Amos left Africa he has been looking for his sister, hoping that one day he would find her. While looking for his sister at a slave show, Amos saw a young women and decided he would buy her and make her his wife. After being married not even a year she died. Amos did not handle death well for someone who has seen it his whole life. He was traumatized, but after a couple of months of looking for his sister he found another young lady to make his wife. This woman is already owned by someone, Amos goes to her owner and buys her and her daughter. All his life Amos wanted to have a beautiful piece of land with a house big enough to have his tanning supplies and all his wife's furniture. Every bit of that dream came to him by the time he was seventy. Amos died when he was eighty one a few month later his wife died too.
Now did Amos live a good life? After being in slavery most of his life and seeing his wife die or is it what he died with, like possessions, family and status,that made him have a good life? If this was you and no matter what happened to you, could you have stayed positive and loved God anyway. Would you classify yourself as having lived a good life, if you had to live the life Amos lived? I would! The answer to a 'good' life is all in attitude.
