10-05-24

ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS
October 5, 2024
The other day, I heard a minister give the old joke about never seeing a u-haul behind a hearse. The point is that we cannot take it with us, and at the end of most people’s lives is a lot of stuff that doesn’t go to heaven but to Good Will, an estate sale, or the trashcan. It’s the stuff that we have purchased and collected that often carries with it a bit too much importance, but there are other things that seem to go to heaven with us, but it’s not stuff that one can pack into the back of a u-haul. 

In Revelation 14:13, we read, “And I heard a voice from heaven saying, ‘Write this: Blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord.’ ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘they will rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them.’” 

I’m not suggesting that God is going to love us more if we bring with us a certain number of good deeds, but I sort of like the positive we brought to this world walking alongside us, not in a prideful way, but in the belief that one life can make a difference, a difference that can last even beyond the specific years of that one human life.

There is joy in the belief that my life can make a difference in this world you created, O Spirit of Life. May the difference I make be a Christ-honoring difference. Amen.