"It will not make much difference, friend, a hundred years from now,
If you live in a stately mansion or on a river scow;
If the clothes you wear are tailor-made or pierced together somehow,
If you eat big steaks or beans and cake ... a hundred years from now.
It won't matter your bank account or the make of car you drive,
For the grave will claim all riches and fame and the things for which you strive.
There's a deadline that we all must meet and no one will be late,
It won't matter then all the places you've been, Each one will keep that date.
We will only have in eternity - what we gave away on earth,
When we go the grave, we can only save the things of eternal worth.
What matters, friend, the earthly gain for which some men always bow?
For your destiny will be sealed, you see ... a hundred years from now."
Leonard Ravenhill (1907-1994)
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1. What do you want others to say at your funeral?
2. What do you want to be known for 100 years from now?
3. Do you ever think about Heaven and what it will be like to meet God?
4. When you die and meet God, what is one thing you wish you'll have done more? What about less?
5. What's the next step you feel you need to take? Who will you tell?
