Saturday Morning Devo

“Finish Line”

Do you ever think about the finish line? Not the end of our Amazing Race this week, but the end of the big race, the end of life. Some people think this is a morbid or sad topic, and it is to some degree sad. But I wonder what you think about when you consider your own death.

An epitaph is a short paragraph, only three or four lines, that tell the story of a person’s life. Sometimes the epitaph is printed on the person’s tombstone, it’s usually also in the newspaper.

If you had to sum up your life in only a few lines, what would you want it to say? What do you want your epitaph to be? Think about it for a few minutes, then write it here:







Now take a few minutes with just you and God, and think about these questions:

1. Does the epitaph that you wrote really reflect a person who lives out the purpose God has for their life?

2. Is your life heading in a direction that will make this epitaph true about you?
-Think about what you do with your time, how you spent your summer, how you are planning on spending your school year; does it all point toward this epitaph?

3. Do you need to make some changes in your priorities so that your life can be described by this epitaph? What changes?

4. Is there anything you want to tell God right now about this subject? Talk to Him about your goals. Tell Him how you feel about death. Ask Him to show you today if there is anything in your life that needs to be adjusted so that you can live out the purpose He has for you.

"Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious
thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the
way everlasting."

(Psalm 139:23-24)