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What would they say? Here is what some of them would probably say.

Who was I?

Doesn’t anyone care who I was or what I did?

Please don’t let them forget me.

Write my story for me.

Gone but please not forgotten.

Listen and I will tell you who I was.

I wasn’t a hero but I was someone.

I have a story to tell.

I called and you came.

With this in mind I started thinking about what is left behind when we 
pass on to another realm of existence. Will we be remembered, and if so 
will we be remembered in a good light or not? For that matter how much 
does it matter to us one way or the other? We will no longer be around 
to know or care about such things, so why do we worry about it now? We 
are all creatures of our own self importance and for that reason we 
want 
to think that we will be remembered after we pass on. This worry is 
vanity of the first order and has no value to us where we are going, be 
it heaven or hell. The things we did while alive count for much but 
only 
to God and Satin. After passing our earthly deeds are done and we move 
on to another place and the past will remain the past and nothing will 
change it. If we are remembered by those still alive in either a good 
or 
bad light nothing will change for us. Out main consideration should be 
not how we will be remembered but where we will go after we leave this 
earth.

The time to do something about where we will go when we leave this life 
is now. The only way to assure where we will be going is to take Jesus 
as your personal savior and live your life the way Jesus would want you 
to. Remember this, (For God so loved the world that he gave his only 
begotten son so that none should perish and all should have eternal 
life.) Living our life in the expectation of spending eternity with God 
is what should be our most important consideration. How we are 
remembered is of little importance by comparison. It would be nice to 
think that we will be remembered in a good light but it is not 
important. By living our life like Jesus would want us to we will be 
remembered the way we would want people to remember us.

Jesus didn’t teach us to live a good life so we would be remembered 
favorably. Jesus taught us that we must give help to those in need of 
help and give comfort to those in need of comfort. All the teachings of 
Jesus point toward living in a way that will assure our acceptance by 
God when the time comes. Remember that only through Jesus can we come 
to 
God, there is no other way. God was aware that we could not live a 
perfect life, so he sent his only son to die for us so that we could 
come home to heaven. Jesus died for us the least we can do is try to 
live as good Christians doing Christian deeds. When we don’t live a 
life 
that Jesus would approve of we are telling Jesus that he died in vain. 
Jesus knows we will stumble at times but we need only ask for his 
blessing and believe in him and he will always be there when we 
stumble. 
Jesus will help us to help ourselves if we only let him.

Pray in private and your prayers will be answered in public. Spread the 
good word of God to all that will listen and help those who need help 
without judging them. Our reward for our good deeds is not here on 
earth 
but in heaven with God.

Don’t be a tombstone crying out for someone to remember. Do the good 
deeds Jesus wants you to do now and in living your life in this manner 
you will surly make life for someone else better.

Copyright Thomas Kimble