MAY IT BE SAID OF ME
Today's reading: Exodus 38-40

"...All this was done just as the Lord had commanded..." Exodus 39:7, 39:21, 39:26 NLT

I often think about what might be said in my eulogy.

Oh, not in a morbid, planning it sort of way, but think about how folks might sum up my life.

There are words they'll use...

Believer. Daughter. Sister. Wife. Mother. Friend.

There are phrases they might mention...

Sunday School teacher. Lumberyard employee. Hobby farmer and green-thumb wanna-be.

There are statements they might make about me...

She liked her pizza. She surely could talk. She loved her Bible.

But as I read the ending chapters of Exodus this morning and unfold the account of the Israelites attempt at constructing the Tabernacle, I've decided I want quoted at my funeral what God chose to write in His Book about them...

'All this was done just as the Lord had commanded.'

That's the dream I have for my life. That's the goal I set for myself.

It's going to take a lot more of pushing my wants and needs aside. It's going to require that I deny myself more than I currently do. It's going to take listening more closely to God's voice than the ideas constantly floating around in my head.

But it's what I want said about my life.