Have you thought about your epitaph?

© 2016 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Even if you live 200 years, your epitaph will last for eternity. Most ignore this fact, concentrating, instead, on acquiring wealth or dealing with the various challenges of daily life.

There were once two brothers named Cain and Abel. We know little about their daily challenges, but God has written an indelible epitaph for each.

Abel offered God a blood sacrifice, picturing the blood sacrifice of the coming Messiah, God the Son, whom God had promised. God has given us His epitaph of Abel as a man of faith.

“By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh” (Hebrews 11:4).

His brother Cain, however, refused to picture the coming Christ by offering a blood sacrifice. Instead, he offered a bloodless sacrifice from the fruit of the ground.

“And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD” (Genesis 4:3).

God rejected Cain’s bloodless sacrifice. As a result, Cain became angry and killed his brother. God’s epitaph concerning Cain declares him to be a wicked murderer.

“For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous” (1 John 3:11-12).

God’s Messiah, whom Cain rejected and Abel embraced, came as promised. The angel explained to Joseph that Mary, his espoused wife, would give birth to this long awaited Savior.

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).

If you ignore Him as Savior, His sacrifice will never benefit you. In fact, you will be judged for rejecting Him.

“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18).

In two hundred years your earthly wealth won’t matter. God’s epitaph concerning you, and your relationship to Christ, will determine your eternal destiny.

What will your epitaph be?

SPACE

SPACE

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