Your Funeral Can Be A Celebration Of Life!
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We have to live life with a sense of urgency. You only live once here on earth. Use your time wisely, and use it to glorify God! Your funeral can be a real celebration of life, not a time of regrets! Growing up, I wouldn’t say I liked going to a funeral; I felt that they were dull and depressing. I was just a little boy then, but it gave me a spooky feeling. But now, as an adult man, I like to go to funerals.
I like the photo boards when the family gathers photos and puts them on whiteboards to share pictures of the deceased man or woman. It is like, in a small way, being about to relive parts of their life that might not even be around to share. This earth is not our home; it is a temporary tent where we will be here for up to 70 or even more years. Think of it as we will live for eternity, and we can choose whether we will be in heaven with God or in hell apart from Him if we have never accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior!
Plan Your Funeral And Make It A Celebration Of Life!
How Do You Want Others To Remember You?
Each one of us will die when God decides it is our time. In the meantime, use your life to love God and others!
Plan To Have No Regrets! Try to follow me; There is a purpose to this reflective exercise question!
At Your Funeral What Are Others Going To Say About You?
Here’s What I Would Like People To Say About Me!
Your Funeral Can Be A Joyful Time!
I am sure you hope others say good things about us at your funeral. Start today, and your wish may come true!
(My life reflected the following)
- He loved God and loved others and did his best.
- He had a great sense of humor and made people smile and laugh.
- He was always full of energy, life, and a little silly.
- He, with God’s help, turned his life away from drugs and alcohol in 1986.
- He was always willing to help others when he could.
- He took care of his 93-year-old mother for the last eight years of her life.
- He cared for Ben Hersh, who had Cerebral Palsy, for over seven years.
- He built wheelchair ramps for a ministry called Faith Indeed for ten years.
- He enjoyed playing basketball for almost 50 years.
- He was usually a positive person most of the time.
- He loved helping others through his website Needencouragement.com.
Plan Your Funeral Ahead Of Time By Living Right!
Right now, it is the fun and insightful part where you write your eulogy to see how you ideally would like your life to turn out and the steps you need to take to get there.
- This might be an essential key that will help you improve your life. Here are a couple of questions you can ask yourself.
- How did they see you as a person?
- Any particular things you wish for them to say about you?
- What are some things you want to mention that you have accomplished?
- What personal qualities do you want them to remember you for?
- The next big question is, what do you need to do today to start becoming that person?
Some Specific Scriptures To Encourage You:
Revelation 21:4 ESV
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Romans 14:8 ESV
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Luke 23:43 ESV
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
John 3:16 ESV
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
John 11:26 ESV
And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Romans 6:23 ESV
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Psalm 23:4 ESV
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
John 11:25-26 ESV
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Matthew 10:28 ESV
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him, who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
Psalm 146:4 ESV
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day, his plans perish.
Hebrews 9:27 ESV
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Ezekiel 18:32 ESV
For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”
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