Dale Ridge church of Christ

Recently, Ruth and our children were out in the backyard drawing on our brick stepping stones with chalk and crayons. Channing, our oldest son, drew a series of pictographs depicting a hero who rescued a village from three monsters. Kayla, our daughter, sketched a sun with sunglasses and a huge smile on its face. Elisha, our youngest son, strategically placed a host of scribbles from this stone to the next.

As I observed this activity, I thought of how in years to come, Ruth and I would look on those stepping stones and remember how our children were at the time of their masterpieces. Even though our beloved children would one day grow up and begin their own families, those stones would stand as a record of how they once were as our sweet young ones.

One could apply this principle to what mark we will leave when our lives have passed. How will we be remembered after we have left this life to go to what lies beyond? Will we be thought of as having been good examples of what Christians should be? Or will we be regarded as having been a mockery to God’s word?

In Romans 12:1-2, we are told to “present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God” and to “be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” We are to live our lives in such a way that we are acceptable to God and serve as proof of what God’s will is for mankind.

In II Corinthians 3:2-3, Paul writes that the Corinthian Christians were living examples of the gospel. In Matthew 5:13-16, Jesus states that His followers are to be the “salt of the earth” and the “light of the world.”

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Filed under: Devotional, Michael Carter on December 15th, 2008