Well Done!

Most of you know that my mother passed away on October 9th and that Janet and I made the trek to Oklahoma to conduct her funeral service on Sunday, October 11th. It was a great privilege for me as a pastor to preach both mother and daddy’s memorial services. As we (my brother, sister and I) cleaned out my mom’s room, I came across a picture of mother and daddy on their wedding day. They were so young and vibrant with their whole lives ahead of them. And now, their lives are over. Oh, how quickly the years fly by! It made me think of the saying, “Only one life, ‘twill soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ will last.” As I held their wedding picture (it’s in a beautiful frame), two thoughts dominated my thinking: 1) The years are flying by for me, even as they did for mother and daddy – Am I living my life in a way that will really count for all eternity? 2) As both mother and daddy are gone now, I’m so glad that they chose to invest so much of their lives in God’s great kingdom work. What comfort it brings me to know that they will hear, “Well done, Art and Gladys Lindell, good and faithful servants!”