11.16- Your Eulogy
11.16-
Your
Eulogy Ecclesiastes 7:1-6 Mike Wittmer
My heart is full from attending the funeral of a faithful
woman. Her life wasn’t spectacular. She wasn’t known widely outside her church,
neighbors, and friends. But she loved Jesus, her seven children, and her
twenty-five grandchildren. She laughed easily, served generously, and could hit
a softball a long way.
Ecclesiastes says, “It is better to go to a
house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting” (verse 2). “The heart of
the wise is in the house of mourning” because there we learn what matters most
(verse 4). New York Times columnist
David Brooks says there are two kinds of virtues: those that look good on a
resume and those you want said at your funeral. Sometimes these overlap, though
often they seem to compete. When in doubt, always choose the eulogy virtues.
The woman in the casket didn’t have a
resume, but her children testified that “she rocked Proverbs 31” and its description of a godly woman. She inspired them to love Jesus and care for others. As Paul said,
“Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ: (I Corinthians 11:1), so they challenged us to
imitate their mother’s life as she imitated Jesus.
What will be said at your funeral? What do
you want said? It’s not too late to develop eulogy virtues. Rest in Jesus. His
salvation frees us to live for what matters most.
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