What is Important?

"...that suddenly, at the moment of death, all things appear in a new perspective.  the one  who is called exchanges comparative darkness and limited knowledge for new light and knowledge commensurate with his new estate, - 'For now we see in a mirror darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known,' I Cor. 13:12.  The things that  the person thought important, - his business affairs, the season's crops, tomorrow's tasks, his success in pleasing those around him, - all of these no longer matter at all.  All of earth's cares and problems suddenly are left behind.  And in their place the things to which he perhaps had given but little attention stand out as all-important, - his attitude toward Christ, his Christian witness to those about him, his prayer life, the motives which underlay his public and private actions.  He will then see that the important thing was not how much he did or how much he gave, but with what motives or with what purpose he acted.  He will wonder, not how much of his money he should have given to the Lord, but why he withheld so much of the Lord's money for himself." ~ Loraine Boettner, Immortality, p. 42