Make Your Life Count for God
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 1 Timothy 4:7 NIV
In Mount Hope Cemetery, Hiawatha, Kansas, you'll find several large gravestones erected by John Milburn Davis. Davis began his working life as a lowly hired hand and managed to amass a considerable fortune. In the process, he didn't make many friends. Nor was he close to his wife's family, since they thought she had married beneath herself. Embittered, he vowed not to leave them a penny. When his wife died, Davis erected an elaborate statue depicting himself and her sitting at opposite ends of a loveseat. He was so pleased with it that he planned a second monument, showing his wife kneeling to place a wreath at his future graveside. Then he had a sculptor place a set of wings on her back. One idea led to another, until he had spent a quarter-of-a-million dollars on tributes to his wife and himself. When people asked him to contribute to the local hospital, or a swimming pool for children, the old miser would say, "What's this town ever done for me?" Davis spent his life's fortune on statues and died at ninety-two as a lonely, grim-faced resident of the poorhouse. And what happened to his monuments? Each and every one of them is slowly sinking into the Kansas soil-victims of time, vandalism, and neglect; memorials to spite the self-centered living. There's a certain poetic justice in the fact that within a few years they'll all be gone. Oh, by the way, only one person attended farmer Davis's funeral - Horace England, the tombstone salesman! Don't let that happen to you; make your life count for God!
This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word for You Today
In Mount Hope Cemetery, Hiawatha, Kansas, you'll find several large gravestones erected by John Milburn Davis. Davis began his working life as a lowly hired hand and managed to amass a considerable fortune. In the process, he didn't make many friends. Nor was he close to his wife's family, since they thought she had married beneath herself. Embittered, he vowed not to leave them a penny. When his wife died, Davis erected an elaborate statue depicting himself and her sitting at opposite ends of a loveseat. He was so pleased with it that he planned a second monument, showing his wife kneeling to place a wreath at his future graveside. Then he had a sculptor place a set of wings on her back. One idea led to another, until he had spent a quarter-of-a-million dollars on tributes to his wife and himself. When people asked him to contribute to the local hospital, or a swimming pool for children, the old miser would say, "What's this town ever done for me?" Davis spent his life's fortune on statues and died at ninety-two as a lonely, grim-faced resident of the poorhouse. And what happened to his monuments? Each and every one of them is slowly sinking into the Kansas soil-victims of time, vandalism, and neglect; memorials to spite the self-centered living. There's a certain poetic justice in the fact that within a few years they'll all be gone. Oh, by the way, only one person attended farmer Davis's funeral - Horace England, the tombstone salesman! Don't let that happen to you; make your life count for God!
This message taken from: Daily Devotional - The Word for You Today
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