Go MAD!!!

What are you doing that will outlast you?

One of the books in my backpack opened with this question. I thought that it was a strange one to ask for a book about teaching Bible Studies.

This past weekend we had our All Saint’s weekend. This is the time in the church where we lift up and praise the lives we lit candles, read and spoke names aloud of the people in our lives who have made an impact.

These people who we think of as saints are people that did something that has outlasted them. We have other people that are living saints in our lives.

So let’s change the question a little bit. What are you going to be remembered for by your friends, or people at school? Are you going to be the one who would always trip someone in the hall, or the one who would stop and help pick up a dropped book? Are you going to show others who the church is a place of love and acceptance or one of hate and filled with hypocrites?

We are built to last longer than just here on Earth. We have the promise of eternal life, and we can live on through the impact we make on Earth.

There is a story of a mother who would yell to her kids every morning as they went to the bus. She would say, “Go MAD.”

But what she was really saying “Go Make A Difference.”

What are you doing to make a difference?