Final Words!
"For David, after he had served his
own generation by the will of God,
fell asleep, was buried with his
fathers, and saw corruption."
Acts 13: 36
In ancient
Greece, epitaphios (“upon a tomb”)
referred to words inscribed on the outside of a
tomb in memory of a deceased person
buried
within. We know the term today as epitaph, the
inscription on a gravestone or tomb in memory
of the deceased.
Apostle Paul didn’t intend to suggest an
epitaph for King David when he spoke
of the long-dead king in a speech in
the synagogue in Pisidian Antioch.
His words would have been
fitting: “David,
after he had served his own generation by
the will of God, fell
asleep.” Could there be
a more succinct, yet powerful, summary of
one man’s
life?
Does God expect any more from
any of us than
to complete the
work He has given us to do?
David was not perfect, but he was a man
after God’s own heart (Acts 13:22). May
each child of God strive to follow David’s
example and leave a similar legacy.
"We are contributing to a much larger
building of the kingdom of God. It’s
through this means that we leave a
legacy of godliness for the next
generation."
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth