Standing in front of my uncle’s coffin, my grandmother turned to me and asked, “Whom does he look like?”
I don’t remember how I responded to that, but I was thinking, “He looks like he’s dead.” I don’t want anyone saying of me after I die, “Doesn’t he look good?”
What I want said of me after I die is what we find said of Abel in the Book of Hebrews.
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.
Even though I’m dead, I’d like to have something to say to the ones coming after me. Think I’ll start praying for that now. May God make a message of my life.
Give it some thought.
Gary