Making A List

  It’s the time of year for lists. Your wish list, your shopping list, the list of places you will be traveling to. The guest list, the gift list, the list of things yet to do. The list of New Year’s resolutions, a list of things to get done before the year ends and all that while you are trying to stay off the naughty list. 

  In all those lists let us not forget the most important list we want to be on:

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:12-15 

  Your name might be on the Dean's List, or the list of Whose Who. You can be on the list of sexiest people alive, or an A-List celebrity. You might be on the richest list or the most popular list or even the most wanted list, yet none of these will be as important as having your name found in the Book of Life. All the deeds we accomplish here having our name in the Lamb’s book of life will matter most.

 Don’t get so caught up in all the other things going on that you forget to do the things that will matter for all eternity.