Every week I watch the worship service online of the church I used to belong to. I don't attend there anymore because I have moved to a different state. But I love that church and the leaders that have taught me so much.
There are several men that pastor there. It is a large church and yesterday, Pastor Joe had preached, and he had an interesting topic. It was: Your Dash Matters
I am certain people like me probably wondered what that meant. Dash? I had no idea.
But it did make sense as he explained it.
On the tombstones in cemeteries, they usually give the date the person was born, and then in the middle a dash and then the date the person died on.
The dash stands for the life we live after birth and before death. And those years matter.
As I think about those years in my own life, what did matter? Has it been the years that contributed to my family by working as much over time as I could.
No. For as much as we needed me to work at that time, I have nothing to show for it, then a few awards I received during that time.
What did matter about that time? I had worked at a group home for adult women and there were times that I could speak about Jesus to the women that lived there and other staff members.
That is what mattered.
What about my family life? What mattered?
The material things we gave our kids.?
No. While some of those material things were needed, it was our love for them and the fact that during the years that we were raising our kids, it was going to church as a family and teaching them about Jesus.
That is what mattered.
I could go on and on. But you get the picture.
The dash in our lives is what matters. One day we will get to that date that shows when we died. Do we want to make it count for Jesus?
Or don't we? What do you think?
Thanks for coming by, Friends.
God Bless you!
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