Your last words...?

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Famous last words on your deathbed 

Todd Beamer Was A Passenger On United Flight 93, September 11, 2001 Are you guys ready? Lets roll. 

 

I have offended God and man, because my work did not reach the quality it should have. DaVinci

 

I finally get to see my Marilynn… spoken by Joe Dimaggio about his wife Marilynn Monroe. 

 

What would your last words be? If I have the chance I would like them NOT to be aaahhhhhggg

But rather “serve God no matter what, he is worthy”. 

 

But King David… he was a shepherd boy, the forgotten son, he was a outcast running from the law, he was King, he was an adulterer and he was a lousy father…. and what did he say? What were his last recorded words… and spoken to his son.

Think of that just for a second… scripture records his last words… but is sure to let us know it was to his future heir. His up and coming son… it wasn’t words to the nation of Israel, or to his family or to God… it was to his son- the next generation. 

1 Kings 2:2 

“I go the way of all the earth; be strong, therefore, and prove yourself a man.

 

Prove - appearing… showing up… transforming into

 

We can see the sins of David breeding, spreading in his son Solomon. Yes Solomon was a great king, the wisest of the wise… but David loved his wives… and Solomon really loved his women and wives… and in a few ways we see how Solomon grew up and in how some other ways he never really achieved the character of God was hoping him to have.

But David said be strong and prove yourself a man… I wonder what David would have said if could have seen the end of Solomons life.

TMI yesterday my wife and I got into a hmmm lets call it a discussion. She said your oldest is 33 years old and you can’t tell him what to do, you will put a wall between you both. I said “if I do it the wrong way, yes I would put up a wall…. however it is still and will always be on me to tell my son how to live if he is not living for God”. I have told me boys numerous times growing up… if you don’t want to live for God- thats fine, but don’t be a phony… just say Im not a Christian… and I will pray you will become one, but I won’t be torn up inside that you are a liar. And I loved that my youngest son for a long long time did just that… now he is on fire for God, but you get my point. Grow up and show yourself to be a man… I would add a man of God. 

One more question… what will it feel like at the end of your life to not show up like a man of God…

Look I see a lot of men in our world who are manly… the kill things, they are tough, they sacrifice for their family, they build businesses, they help others… but if you do not know God - Live for God - and win others TO God… are you really a man of God? 

I love the old song by Todd Snider called Talking Seattle Grunge… about a band that was so alternative and wanted to stand out so much that they formed and decided to never play a song, not a note… it pokes fun of being so different that masses can be fooled and fall in love with the gimmick and forget what being in a band is about… - you should check it out. But point being, the world is full of gimmicks when it comes to what a man is… I am sure when we get to heaven there will be men who were scrawny, ugly, uneducated, poor and maybe never had a wife or a woman… and they were THEEE Men of God that are on display because they realized what being a man is about - being like Jesus. 

So today…as if I am  going to die… I say unto you “Be strong and be a man… a man of God”!