Be A Blessing

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
BE A BLESSING
Prov 10:7
7 The memory of the righteous will be a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.
NIV
It is not that I am a prideful man, but it does make me feel a little good to know that my name will be remembered as especially by God. My name is written down in the lamb’s book of life. It is there for all of eternity. But my name will also be remembered with fondness as a blessing to those who come after me. My family, those granddaughters and their children and their children will know my name and be blessed because of it. They will have my books, my devotions, to pass down to the next generation of my family long after I am in the everlasting presence of my God. Of course that is if he still has not yet come for all his followers. I am the first of my family to be a believer and have established a heritage for the rest of my family to live up to. Perhaps my name will also be remembered as a blessing to those who have been touched by my ministry, my calling from God. Now I am not quite sure how the name of the wicked will rot, that it will perish, for many names of people who were wicked have been recorded in history for all to read about. They are remembered by people, but surely not as a blessing, but as a curse, so to speak, upon mankind. But what if this is speaking of just the difference between a believer and a non-believer? What if this is just the righteous and the wicked, the saved and not saved. I think many people who are not saved are basically good upstanding people who do much humanitarian good. Surely their names will be remembered as great among the people, but maybe not so great before God. No matter how good and great a man’s life may me here on this earth, if it does not serve the purpose of God, if he does not serve the Lord Jesus Christ, if he has rejected him as Lord and Savior, his name will rot in the realm of God. Truly all pride aside, I think the choice is clear, I want the memory of me to be a blessing before men and God.