How will you be remembered once you are dead and gone?
The actions you take now affect the way you will be remembered years from now.
Take time to tell your parents if they are still living what they have meant to you.
Honor them and you will receive a blessing as well.
In Luke 12: vs 16 and following Jesus tells the parable of the rich fool.
"The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops."
Then he said "This is what I will do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and goods."
vs 20 But God said to him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?"
Do you think that the blessings God has bestowed upon you are just for you to enjoy? If so, you are mistaken. I see this lived out every time I get a little more in my check, there's always someone who is in need of it. Freely give and freely it will be given unto you.
Ecclesiates 11:1 says "Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again."
Sounds like something out of a fortune cookie doesn't it?
Its been said that an open hand freely gives and freely receives, but a closed hand cannot receive.
The Dead Sea only takes in water. There is no outlet and thus the salt content is too much for any plant or animal to live there. Yet the Sea of Galilee is teaming with life since it receives water but also gives it out again.
So what kind of legacy/life will you have? Will others remember you as being a giver or will you be
like the character of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dicken's book "A Christmas Carol?"
Matthew 6:19-21 reminds us "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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