What Do You Want To Be Known For?

Hello Guys and Gals!

I'm asking this question today, 'What do you want to be known for when you are done with this life?' The reason I'm asking you this question is because it is a question I have asked myself. I started asking myself this question a few years ago and it, through the grace of God, has helped to transform my life!

Back then, I was known for being a jerk, speaking my mind, and doing methamphetamines! I did not like what I saw when I looked at myself in the mirror. And no, I'm not talking physically. The person I looked at when I looked in the mirror was never someone I wanted to know when I was younger. So I prayed to God asking Him to take me out of that life with His power because I was helpless to leave it on my own, such was my addiction!

Now, just a few years later, my life has been transformed! But it was a hard road! One of the main things I had to do was cut the people who were contributing to my sinful habits out of my life like an infection is cut out in order that the wound may heal! So the process started.

Then I asked myself this question, 'What do you want to be known for?' I came up with an interesting answer. I wanted to be known as someone who, when I stood before the throne of God, He would look down upon me with love and say, 'Well done thou good and faithful servant!' That is what I wanted to be known for!

So I started to study on how I could achieve that. Where did I go you might ask. I went to the Bible, the Holy Word of God! I dove in and did not resurface until I had a good grasp of what I should do! Not all has been revealed yet to me, but I believe I have made a good start! And I started it all by making coffee for the people at my church.

That is the secret! Serving others! But how? Start anywhere where you see an opportunity that you can do something for someone else and do it without letting them know you're doing it! You will not be able to fathom the joy that will come to you from doing that one simple thing that puts a smile on other people's faces. Today, I try to do for others all the time. And today I am looking for yet another way to serve that I have not started doing yet. This is my joy and the joy that Jesus spoke of when He said if you would be first in the Kingdom of God, then you must be a servant! Such is the joy of serving!

So I ask you again, 'What do you want to be known for?' Do you want to be known for being selfish in any way? Or would you rather be known for being a loving servant of others? Which is more desirable to you? If the answer comes up different than you expect, then ask yourself why that is. Figure it out for you. I figured it out for me!

God bless you all this day!