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When your time on earth has ended and your appointment with eternity begins, how do you want to be remembered? What things in the life that you now have are most important to you? These questions take deep thought and soul searching. When the lid is closed on the box that holds the shell of who you are, how will the visitors to your memorial service whisper about you as the walk away? Do you think they will say… “My goodness, he always had the nicest wardrobe and newest mobile phone!” Might they say… “You know, she really worked hard climbing that corporate ladder but she just wasn’t a people person.” Wouldn’t it be so much more meaningful to hear them say… “You know, he really loved people.” Maybe… “She really cared for her family and made me smile every time I saw her.” Yes, I know. It is not easy to look back over your life and wonder what really made a difference in the big picture. How many of us work like dogs for years and years to chase the things which are categorized by materialism while so many others in the world starve and would just like to have a little comfort in their world. The longer I live and the more places I visit, the more I see people who seem to only be concerned about their outward appearance and how they are perceived by their peers while they completely ignore the inside of themselves… the God breathed part which is spiritual and eternal. The outside shell ages and decays but the inner man continues on. Shouldn’t we focus on that part of who we are? I think so. Ok, so you may think this is a little repetitious but read the words in red on the side of this posting. They are the words of a song which I have grown to love and now consider to be my life song. If I face death before you do my friend, I pray that this song will somehow be a small portrait of who I was as a person. Listen and think. Re-prioritise what consumes your time and serve the Master Creator of all that is… amen.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit” yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. – James 4:13-17 ESV |
When it’s all been said and done When it’s all been said and done Lord, your mercy is so great I will always sing your praise When it’s all been said and done
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