Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir singing … Field of Souls … poignantly singing of how we, as Christians, must do all we can to work together to live as Christ and work the field of souls for Christ’s glory.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Matthew 5:29 … [NLT] … 2 Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties. After all, everyone dies — so the living should take this to heart.
… God’s “teacher,” Solomon, reflects that we learn more about the way to live at funerals than we do at parties.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Ecclesiastes 7:1-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Solomon reflecting on the way he had lived his life and lamenting that it could have been lived more for the Lord.
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Reference Passage : … Ephesians 4:1-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul, from prison, contemplating his possible death, reflects for fellow Christians the way we should live our lives.
Reference Passage : … 1 Corinthians 11:1 [NLT] … 1 And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
… The Apostle Paul, reflecting on the way he had lived, confidently exhorted fellow Christians to follow His lead and live to follow Christ’s example.
Reference Passage : … 2Timothy 4:5-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul, knowing he’s about to die, reflects on his own life to encourage Timothy (and us) to live our lives for the Gospel and God’s glory.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Mike Wittmer, uses a personal reflection of a friend’s life well lived for Christ. And the ODB author wrote: My heart is full from attending the funeral of a faithful woman. Her life wasn’t spectacular. She wasn’t known widely outside her church, neighbors, and friends. But she loved Jesus, her seven children, and her twenty-five grandchildren. She laughed easily, served generously, and could hit a softball a long way. …
The woman in the casket didn’t have a résumé, but her children testified that “she rocked Proverbs 31” and its description of a godly woman. She inspired them to love Jesus and care for others.
When our family and friends are laying flowers at our grave site [see photo], what will be our eulogy? During the Apostle Paul’s life, he was near death several times; and he wrote to fellow Christians that they (we) should live their (our) lives as our eulogy to the Lord (see reference Scriptures above).
And really we should answer Mike Wittmer’s questions at the closing of today’s ODB entry, as he writes … “What will be said at your funeral? What do you want said?”
Because the way we live our lives, prayerfully as Paul wrote in Ephesians 4:1, should be our eulogies when we’re laid to rest and then live with Christ forever.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for giving us lives which can become eulogies for Your glory.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me to live our lives as ongoing legacies to our Lord. … Amen
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