My Grandmother passed away on Saturday (09-19-09) I was asked to speak at her funeral. If you have never given a eulogy as you can imagine it is a very difficult thing to do. But I prayed about it and I knew that God would give me the words and the strength to honor such a holy woman that meant so much to me. The only reason I have posted this is because God burdened me with this thanks and message and maybe it will touch you.
"The tragedy of life is being dead inside while still alive" We are all born lost and dead inside until we find salvation and the holy spirit enters us. Luckily my grandmother found her lord and savior Jesus Christ and the verse Psalms (118:8): "It is better to take refuge in the Lord than trust in man." My grandmother was many things to many people. She was a wife. The kind of wife that would go in every morning and wipe up her husbands tears after praying. This undertaking required a full sized bath towel because there was a huge puddle. My grandfather could pray down heaven and he did every morning of his life. She was a mother, raising 3 daughters and 2 sons. She lived by Proverbs (22:6): "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." She was a friend, the kind of friend that would always make you feel good about yourself and do anything she could to help you out. She was a cook, the best cook that I have ever met. But most important of all she was a christian. Saturday was judgment day for my grandmother and at that point her salvation was the only thing that mattered. Not how much money she had, not her house, not her jewelry, cars, or clothes. She was not just a christian that went to church, but one that built her house on the rock. Not a woman that got lost in the world, but a woman that walked in the word. A woman that placed Jesus above all. She was a woman that not only had knowledge, but possessed wisdom; which you can only get from Gods word. Pastor James MacDonald once said the most important decision you will ever make is if you choose to be born twice or die twice. Dying only referring to the physical death if you have salvation. John (8:51) says: "Truly truly I say to you if anyone keeps my word, they will never die." The second death is mentioned in Revelations chapter 21 which reads: "The one who conquers I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murders, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns of fire and sulfur, which is the second death." Loss is never easy, but at least as Christians who have found salvation it is only temporary. 1 Thessalonians (4:13) says "Christians should not grieve as others do who have no hope." The grief that is being acknowledged should be grief mixed with joy because 1st Corinthians and Revelations talk about future reunions. As we are experiencing here right now the hourglass of life on Earth will one day end. Our judgment day will come. Always remember Psalms (118:8) "It is better to trust in the lord than to trust in man."
God Bless!
