Does my life mean anything?
We are but a breath in eternity.
A couple of weeks ago I preached at a funeral and whenever I do I always
think about what truly matters. I had
someone ask me if I thought "Well done, good and faithful servant,"
was proper for a gravestone and I said yes.
When I did I got to thinking about our family cemetery, that the oldest
graves there date to the late 19th century and I wondered where the
ones who died before that were buried.
They left no grave marked with a stone, nothing to remind us that they
lived other than whatever legacy of life they have passed from one generation
to the next, no longer discernible in my life.
The writer here says that the righteous have an everlasting legacy,
their lives ultimately and eternally have meaning because they will live
forever. Only, however, if we keep that
in the forefront of our lives.
Are we hearers of the Word only or are we doers as
well. There is evidence of the Spirit in
us through the testimony of our lives.
Are we bearing fruit or are we just marking time, putting in our time
and going back to the business of life?
We have made Christianity no more than a hobby and in many cases a good
bit less than that, we are often more passionate about our hobbies than we are
our faith and its influence on our lives.
Do we spend more time on sports, politics, whatever else that can
consume us than we do our relationship with the Lord? If so, there is a clear message to us in that
fact. Is He first, second, third or
worse in your life? Where we invest
ourselves will determine what we have to offer to others. What is my life built on?
You have been filled in Him "in him the whole fullness
of deity dwells bodily." You have
been raised to life eternal from the death of your sins. Does my life mean anything? It means enough that Jesus came down from
heaven, lived among us, died on a cross as a sinner in order that I might live
with Him forever. Does my life mean that
much to me? Am I making it count for the
kingdom or am I hiding it and keeping it from Him? Am I wasting it by worrying myself over
frivolous things like eating and drinking or some other similarly insignificant
thing? It is time for Christians to
truly live as though every day is the most important day of our lives because
He has given it to us as a gift and therefore it potentially holds limitless
possibilities to see Him working in and through us.
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