Anna Nicole Smith Is Dead
Posted by:
Bible Blogger on
February 8, 2007 at
5:59PM EST
Anna Nicole Smith is dead.
First, let me say that my heart goes out to her friends, family and
especially to her newborn daughter who has now lost her brother and her
mother.
Anna's death bothers me because here is a human being who is going to
be remembered as a punch line. No one's going to think of the millions
she's given to charity or the good works that she had done through her
life. She's going to be known for being a stripper who married a 90
something billionaire; for doing Playboy magazine photo shoots and for
being a "dumb blonde" "Marilyn Monroe knockoff" who became really fat
and then lost it on "TrimSpa, baby!"
It lead me to think about what legacy I'm going to be leaving behind
when God says it's my time to come home. When I'm the one who's body
is laying in the morgue what will people be saying and thinking about
me?
I don't say it in terms of wanting praise for myself or hoping that
when I'm gone there will be scores of people who are mourning the fact
I'm not breathing oxygen. I'm thinking about it in terms of what
people will be thinking when the time comes around. Will they say
"well, he worked a lot and he loved NASCAR"? Will they say "he did
all he could to be a part of his kid's life"? Will they say "he was a
man after the heart of God"?
I'm hoping when I'm gone people will look at my life and say that I was
someone who was after God's heart. The greatest compliment I could be
given when I'm gone is to have someone look at my life and make them
turn to God in wonder because I was so enamored with our Lord. A life
where my brothers and sisters in Christ, while sad, also celebrate the
fact they know with no doubts I'm in heaven with our Lord and they will
see me again.
Looking through that lens, I'm really looking at my life and what I'm
doing in terms of my life legacy. Even today some of the things I've
been doing lose a lot of their meaning when viewed through a filter of
time. What about your life? What changes could you make to leave a
legacy where God gets the glory?
