Write your Obituary ---Now!

If you are reading this, you are writing your obituary right now!  I know, your thinking…..how morbid!  But not really.  Because once you are gone, you no longer have the chance to write anything on the palette of your life. 

Right now, this very moment, the story of who you are is being quickly scribbled in the notebooks of all those that surround you.  How would they describe you,  What would be said about you?  How you lived your life?  What you thought was important?  What would your family and friends say you valued the most?

If only one sentence was allowed to describe you….what would it be?  This question stood out loud and clear to me as i was reading in the book of 1 Kings.  As i went down, King after King it says this one blurb.  “He did evil in the eyes of the Lord”  out of 10 to sometimes 40 years of their reign it was summed up in one sentence!  If all the things were boiled down that a king had done…..he was still known as….A King that did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

That gets my attention.  If all of your life were penned into say three paragraphs…..and one sentence was the summary…would it be ______ did evil in the eyes of the Lord.  OR _______ did what was right in the eyes of the Lord (as a very few Kings did)

You have today to write your own life history……

will it be yourstory or HIStory?

Even a child is known by his actions,

by whether his conduct is pure and right.

Proverbs 20:11