Whats it going to take to be remembered?

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Here is an awkward question. What is the best way to make sure people miss you when you die?

Be famous, popular, rich, related, giving, intelligent, poetic, empowered, to be president, to be loving… 

WRONG!

 

Hebrews 6:10 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. 

 

 

Matthew 25:40

And the King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’

 

Deserve comes from two latin words. De – from,  Serve- I have what I have from serving others.

 

God remembers us best when we serve. Others will remember us best by how we served them in the name of Christ.

 

What do you want to be remembered for? Hopefully for serving God.

But how long do you want people to remember you?… that answer lies in how great of a servant you were to this world. 

 

 

A missionary preached in a remote, poverty ridden area in west Africa. He

appealed for support of Christian work throughout the area and encouraged

those present to give what they could toward the construction of a building

which would serve as a medical clinic and a place of worship. Approximately

two hours after the worship service, a young woman came to the missionary

and presented him with $40 to be used for the building project. The

missionary was stunned. Where on earth, he thought, did this woman come up

with such a large sum of money in a region afflicted by painfully forbidding

circumstances? Confounded, he posed this question as politely as he knew

how. He was informed that she had gone to a wealthy planter and sold herself

into his service for the rest of her life. Let us be clear about what I have

just told you. She had sold herself into the service of a landowner. And

why? This was her way of giving herself into the service of Jesus Christ.

Not partially, but totally. That sounds like a radical price to pay doesn't

it? However, We still today tell this story about the woman and nothing is mentioned of the rich land owner… Her service has made an eternal impact and a forever memory on thousands… the land owner may have made thousands… but his memory is distant. 

 

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a  benefit when he dies. Tertullian