Tuesday, September 27, 2005
How will I be remembered?
As I was spending time with the Creator today, I was reading Acts 2. First of all, what an awesome passage of Scripture. It's all about the Holy Ghost! The people got blown about by strong, rapid wind; little flames were "floating" above their heads, maybe their hair caught on fire? who knows; and then all of the sudden they blurting out weird and foreign languages. Can you imagine what that would have felt like? Not only physically, but emotionally and mentally--hearing all of that around you and watching how other people are reacting, all the while not being able to control what's coming from your mouth? I think it would have been awesome! But here's the big thing that got me. I've read this passage hundreds of times, and this has never stood out to me until now: verse 5 says, "Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven." The Jews are described as GOD-FEARING. There was obviously something about them, that was so outspoken and evident that Paul had to specifically state they were God-fearing. The Jews honored God with their lives and had so much respect for their Creator. I think we, as Christians, myself included, have taken on a mentality that is much less than the Jews. Yes of course we revere God as the Great I Am and the Holy One, but do we really fear Him in the way we're supposed to? Do we really acknowledge continuously who He is and what He's done for us? Or just sometimes let it take a backseat? For me, I know that I have some steps I need to be taking. When I'm no longer around and people talk about me or write about me, I want to be known as a woman who feared God, like the Jews. What an awesome testimony! What are your thoughts?
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That reminds me of that song about leaving behind a legacy. She says "how will they remember me?" I want to be remembered simply as someone who loved God. Someone that picked themselves up after a fall. Some that feared God and was a woman after God's own heart. I want to be remembered as someone took Christianity as who I am not something I do.
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