Generations come and go. People leave this Earth with barely more than an epitaph, he was a good man, or she was loved by her children, or he was known as a craftsman. A lifetime of laboring and living has extinguished. And a handful of friends and family will assemble to hear or speak some final words over the coffin. And worse, even in those they were loved by will have fading memories will be gone in a generation who is only left to ask, I wonder what he was like?

“they perish forever without anyone regarding it.” Job 4

“For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.” Ecclesiastes 9:5.

We want to be remembered. A Christian knows he has a place with God and with his children. Heaven will be more real than life on this terrestrial circle. God has a Book of Life where the names of believers are recorded and next to that is the Book of Deeds. The good and bad is recorded there. If you turned to Jesus and obeyed His Gospel, the bad is miraculously blotted over by His blood shed at Calvary. And what is left is only the good you did and your name is entered in the Life Book..

If your name was never entered in the Life Book, your troubles have only just begun because God does not forget. The greatest crime you and all your hellbound companions have done is to live a life that was a shaking fist in the face of God.

Eliphaz in the book of Job said something right: “Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?” Job 4:6

To fear God and keep His commandments is the whole duty of man, said Solomon.

You and I can be remembered for eternity if we follow the Savior who tread this Earth for a little while so as to show us how to live. I challenged you to seek so that you find, to knock so the door be opened to you, and ask so that you receive..

“Why do you delay, Arise and be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name. Acts 22:16.

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