Day 109 – Live your life in such a way that at your death the Lord will be praised.
Today’s Reading: 2 Chronicles 21-23
2 Chronicles 21:20 “He was thirty-two years old when he became king. He reigned in Jerusalem eight years and, to no one’s sorrow, departed. However they buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.”
Jehoram, King of Judah lived a life full of evil; a life like the Kings of Israel, placing idols up all around the hill country of Judah, and worse yet, he lead Judah astray into whoredom. In a way, Jehoram talked all of Judah into selling themselves to the Devil. His sin was so thick during his reign that God only let him reign for 8 years, then brought a plague onto his family, and brought a disease onto him. At the announcement of his death, the people of Judah could have cared less; they didn’t even regret that he died.
That’s what I call a life wasted on worldliness.
Selfishness won Jehoram’s heart and his life was done. When he felt deaths sting, he never even got to hear the choir sing. No one even acknowledged his life, no eulogy was spoken because there was no reason.
We shouldn’t live our life with worldly pursuits, we should live a life worthy of the King, the Lord of Our Life, the bringer of salvation, and the Giver of Life. When I die if the only words that are spoken are, “she loved like Jesus and lived her life for Him,” I would be one happy Heavenly host.
How are you living your life? Is it all about you? Stop for a minute, take an inventory of where you spend your time and where you spend your money, do these things speak to how you are living? Or do they speak to who or what you are worshipping? Do you need to make modifications? How are you leading those around you? With truth? With love? With compassion? Are you making an impact on the world around you, Investing in others? Jehoram didn’t only take his life but the life of all those around him. Jesus is different, He isn’t a taker of life, He is the giver of Life! Live for Him, Love for Him. Make your life worth a eulogy!
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