What do you believe people who survive you’ll write as your epitaph? How will your obituary read? What words will be employed in the eulogy to sum up your life? Saul’s epitaph was a unhappy one, summing up the sad life of this person who played such a very important role in David’s life.

Like Saul and his boys, we are all going to die. At other times it is wrenching and appalling, bloody and grotesque. On other occasions it appears the cold fingers of death linger too long as some dear soul endures discomfort and unhappiness, isolation and senility. But here’s the good news for Christians : We who know the Lord Jesus Christ carry inside ourselves a replenished soul and spirit, that part of us which He attacked currently we were born from above—when we became Christians. So we don’t lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being replenished day by day.

For momentary, light affliction is manufacturing for us an eternal weight of glory way beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which aren’t seen ; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which aren’t seen are endless.

What part are you playing today? Is it authentic? Is it really Christian? If that is the case let me return to the questions I asked as you started this reading for today.

What do you suspect people who survive you may write as your epitaph? How will your obituary read? What words will sum up your life?