I don't mind if you've got something nice to say about me
And I enjoy an accolade like the rest
You could take my picture and hang it in a gallery
Of all who's who and so-n-so's that used to be the best
At such'n'such ... it wouldn't matter much
I won't lie, it feels alright to see your name in lights
We all need an 'Atta boy' or 'Atta girl'
But in the end I'd like to hang my hat on more besides
The temporary trappings of this world
I want to leave a legacy
How will they remember me?
Did I choose to love? Did I point to You enough
To make a mark on things?
I want to leave an offering
A child of mercy and grace who
blessed your name unapologetically
And leave that kind of legacy
I don't have to look too far or too long awhile
To make a lengthly list of all that I enjoy
It's an accumulating trinket and a treasure pile
Where moth and rust, thieves and such will soon enough destroy
Not well traveled, not well read, not well-to-do or well bred
Just want to hear instead, "Well Done" good and faithful one...
just wondering if my life is not for the Lord, wat is there in this life? will i be successful? will i be doing the right thing? will i be rich and not happy? will i be really missing something in my life? after all, the Bible has made clear that we are made for His pleasure and His will, so that means, if we insisted in our own ways, and not doing His ways, will we be truly happy or successful in life? this is a question i would like to post here.
God gives us free will. it is not a compulsion nor issit legalistic. we are free to do wat we want. but the thing is: will we be happy? God is not a God who is out to destroy ur life by taking wat u like or forcing us to do things we dun wan to. God is a giver of life and a loving Father who gives good gifts who adds no sorrow in it! i think some of us (or maybe a lot of us) will wan to have this renewed mind. coz i noe some just think that God definitely will made us do things we dislike, give us spouses that we dun like the look of. if thats the case, isnt God just a sadist? of coz not! think in this case, if u r a parent, and ur child of mayb 5 yrs old is wanting a bottle of wine that looks nice to him, will u give the child? of coz not! why? coz u dotes on ur child and noes that the wine is bad for him. the bottle looks nice to the child, but it is in fact poison for the child. see then, issit love or issit deprivation?
again, back to the point. will i be truly happy or successful if i insisted the way i want to go and to be. i can really be rich but at the end of my life finds that i have not did wat i shld, isnt that futile and sad? im not sure if i have managed to say wat i wanna say here. my thoughts are all just in circles.
so, wat is the conclusion? do His will. not only just doing, but delighting in His will. and i will be truly successful and happy in my life :) Lets hear wat King Solomon said at the end of his life after he has gotten everything in his whole life: he is the richest, the smartest in the whole world, but he turned his back on God later in his life and actuali started the book of Ecclesiastes with "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity". i really do not want to say that in my life when at the end then i realised all things that i have done are all but in vain.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man's all. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil. Eccl 12:14
