Bad Ending

I have watched movies or TV shows that didn’t end well according to me. I like happy endings. I like it when a marriage is saved or a relationship with family restored. I like it when the guy and the girl finally see in each other what we the audience had seen all along. I like the good guy to win and the bad guy to loose. That really isn’t reality though. A movie or TV show is more about entertainment than realty for sure. I still want life to be good. I don’t want there to be disease and death. I really need to stop dreaming and come back to the real world.

At the end of the day I’m not really in control of the end of my life story. Oh sure, people can actually take their life and end it how they think they want. That is very abrupt and causes loved ones left behind a lot of pain and struggle for sure because it’s really a very self-centered action. There are things I can do to help the ending of my life to be positive and powerful.

King Jehoram was a king who did not finish well. He killed his brothers and he turned his back on God. He made the enemies of Judah angry and they invaded Jerusalem. He was a failure as a king and quite frankly as a person. Check this out…

20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He passed away, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings. (2 Chronicles 21:20 NIV)

I think it would be sad to be at a funeral service where no one was sad to see the guy die. He had used and abused so many people. He was perceived as a dishonest and evil king. I’ll summarize the old adage: “I’m actually preaching my funeral in my day to day life today.” I believe that how I treat people in ordinary circumstances can translate into many other relationships. If I’m kind, honest and honorable to the people I meet – they are usually someone’s family and the word can spread. Obviously the reverse of that is true.

It’s crazy to think that how I live today can translate into how I’m thought of when I die. I don’t think it’s just one act of kindness or honor, but it could be. I have many choices available to me today. I want to choose to put others before myself. I want to be generous toward others. I want to do all of this just so people say nice things at my funeral. I want to honor God in all I do – I really want to please Him above any other and there will still be people who miss me. To have a good ending to my life, I need to decide to honor God and walk humbly before Him today and every day as long as I live.

Pressing On!

Dwayne