How Will You Be Remembered?

Today while reading a book, I cam across a simple yet profound quote....

"How would your epitaph read if God Himself were to write it?"

That really got me thinking

None of us are promised a tomorrow.
None of us are promised another minute.
And chances are if you are reading this, then 100 years from now you will be dead (and so will I).

When our time is up how will we be remembered?


Have you ever walked through a cemetery and read the writing on some of the the grave markers?
I have.

You can figure out how old they were.
You can see if they were male of female.
Sometimes you can tell if they were married or had children.
And sometimes little messages are even left summing up who they were.

But out of everything on the marker, the most important thing is the dash between the birth date and the death date.

That dash represents everything that person did in their whole life. From the time they took their first breath to the last they took their last.

And when we (the living) look upon the dash of deceased loved ones, our minds are flooded with memories.

In the same respect, when were are dead and gone...people will look at our dashes and remember things about our lives.

When people remember us it won't matter what car we drove, what brand our clothes were, or how many figures we made a year.

They will remember whether or not they were giving or selfish, kind or rude, sympathetic or apathetic, and if they really cared about the well-fare of other or if they just cared about getting ahead.

As Christians we are called the be a peculiar people. We are instructed to lay up treasures in heaven not on earth. We are instructed to keep our main focus on the goal set ahead of us, to bring souls to Christ.

When you stand before the Lord on judgement day, is He going to care more about the 10 gold medals  you won...of the 10 lost and dying souls you shared the gospel with?

This is not our final home, it is only temporary. We are just passing through for a short while. 

I would like to think that when I arrive on the shores of heaven, God can look at me and say "Well done my child. You remained faithful and loyal to the purpose I had for you. Enter into the joy of your salvation."

I would also like to think that any loved ones I may leave behind me on earth would be able to say postive things about my life on earth. That I was kind hearted and loving and thoughtful. That I put other's needs ahead of my own and served the Lord faithfully. That I had a fire in my life, and people could tell by the way I spoke and carried myself that I was different.

What about you?

How will people remember you on your funeral day?
How will they remember you 10 years later?
15?
25?
50?

Will they remember you at all?
Are you living in such a way that your existence merits remembering?

If you had the opportunity to write your own epitaph, what would you say about the may you lived?
What would your friends and family write for your epitaph?
What would God write for your epitaph?

"Sometimes I think what will people think of me, when I'm only just a memory. When I'm home where my soul belongs."

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

" An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued."

Live...Laugh...Love
Until Next Time,
Racheal <3