Legacy

OUR NAMES ARE RECORDED

By Karl C. Priest March 1, 2017

After our births, our names are recorded using a variety of methods in many different forms.

The first probably was on a birth certificate.

Census records contain all of our names.

Perhaps your name has been embossed on a pocketbook or golf bag.

We all are on tax lists.

Just think of all the places your name has been placed. Some neutral, some honorable, and some shameful.

For me, just to name a few, there were police records; baseball team rosters; a high school diploma, news article about the Golden Gloves; bachelor’s and master’s degrees, a crewmember of the USS Wright, marriage certificate, faculty lists of several schools, and newspaper articles about creation versus evolutionism battles.

In the future, unless we leave in the Rapture, our names will be placed on a death certificate and engraved into a tombstone.

The ultimate place to have our names recorded is “the book of life”. The Bible makes it clear the consequence of not having our names in that book. “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”(Revelation 20:15)

It is by far better to “Rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.” (Luke 10:20b)

That will be the final recording of our (the Born Again believers) names.

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