I posted earlier this year that I have been making a concentrated effort to read through the Bible this year. I have started in different places, and since purchasing a Bible with a daily reading plan, I have been reading a certain regimen per day as well as the reading I had previously started. What I have learned about reading the Bible is this:
There are certain verses that absolutely shake me to the core.
On this day, my 34th birthday, I have decided to take the latest verse with such an effect and make a short post about it.
"In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers. He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings." (2 Chronicles 21:19-20, ESV)
This is the legacy of King Jehoram of Judah, son of Jehoshaphat, grandson of Asa. He killed his brothers, forgot God, and took Judah down a path that would begin its downfall. Most notably are those words in Verse 20: "And he departed with no one's regret."
What will be said about you when it is your time? I'm not saying expect a royal funeral, because you are not royalty. My aim in this blog is to ask you to check yourself. Would anyone miss you if you were not there? Or is your life having no impact on those around you? Even a silent life can have a positive impact; your actions and your life speak infinitely more than what your words can say.
Take a look at the life your living, and what you are allowing others to see you live out. A life without regret is a lot better than a life no one regrets losing.
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