Introduction
Our assignment in speech class was to write a eulogy about someone who had
inspired us to live a better life. I was scared to do the project because I knew
that I would need to rely on the Lord. Everything that he has created can be
used to profit us and help us build the kingdom, even our sin. Looking at myself
this way, I know my weaknesses and I know that the Lord's grace can allow these
weaknesses to be turned into strengths to be used to build up the kingdom. I
just hope that what I have written can help other people better understand their
relationship with God and help them to follow his word.
An Eulogy to Sin
Lord, I am afraid of coming towards You and I know that the gulf that separates
us is my own sin. Lord I feel as I always do, I feel a need to serve you, I feel that
responsibility tugging at me but I always submit to pleasing myself in worldly
ways. Thinking things that bring me pleasure wasting the time that you have
given me with things that bring my instantaneous joy. Lord, I would like to write a
eulogy today of that old man that I wish to leave behind me. Give me recognition
of my sins Lord that I would not fear You but that I would be able to show You my
love towards You through following Your commandments and making the best
out of what You have given me to use to build your kingdom Lord.
I do not wish to stand here and make repetitions of Your name that I can feel
better about myself for I know that repentance isn’t made up of words, it’s my
reaction to these words that is repentance. Repentance’s purpose is to not
make us feel better, but it is to help us follow Your word. What is the good of
knowing my sin if I don’t get rid of it? What is the good of Your word if I do not
use it in my life? Even Jesus sacrifice would be useless if I did not live by His
example. Too often we use Him as a crutch to lean on and by doing this we
refuse to see what His life really meant to our salvation. Sin is really destroyed
when we refuse to yield to temptation and we can only do this by living like
Christ. Temptation is always here, there is nothing that we can do about it except
not to subscribe to its enticement. We often dream of You destroying that sin
but it is us that must accomplish this. Nothing in this world can come between us
and Your love, or in other words Your commandments, except our own sin and
by following Your commandments we destroy it. So we see that by following
even a little of Your word, it becomes easier for is to follow it all. By using what
we have to serve You, You give us more.
I worship You Lord, but not with words not with any thing that could come from
me Lord, I worship You by taking Your name upon my own. I worship You by
doing what Christ did, becoming a living example of your word. I realize that His
sacrifice, His birth, His life means nothing if I don’t try to emulate what His life
meant, a plan for eternal life, a life without death, or in other words, sin.
I pray that I would not seek to define myself by things of this world, things that
would categorize me as someone trendy, artsy, or fashionable but I would seek
to define myself by Your word. I would like to leave behind everything I would
use to lift myself above others, I would pray that I would not take false
ownership of my life for I have given it to be used by you when I was baptized.
I pray that when I am gone Lord, my friends and family would not remember me
but rather remember what You did in my life. I pray that these people here today
would not remember the servant that spoke these words, but they would
recognize that they are from You and react to them. My words and my life means
nothing if they are not used to follow Your word. This is humility, not to put down
ourselves but rather realize that everything we have comes from You and
should be used for You.
I leave my sin behind today Lord and give my life once again back to You, that I
would become one with you Lord by living not my own life but Yours. I pray that I
would be an example of your word that others may follow it as well and most of
all I pray that I would not resurrect that man of sin that I have buried and
eulogized today but I would always seek You before myself.
Our assignment in speech class was to write a eulogy about someone who had
inspired us to live a better life. I was scared to do the project because I knew
that I would need to rely on the Lord. Everything that he has created can be
used to profit us and help us build the kingdom, even our sin. Looking at myself
this way, I know my weaknesses and I know that the Lord's grace can allow these
weaknesses to be turned into strengths to be used to build up the kingdom. I
just hope that what I have written can help other people better understand their
relationship with God and help them to follow his word.
An Eulogy to Sin
Lord, I am afraid of coming towards You and I know that the gulf that separates
us is my own sin. Lord I feel as I always do, I feel a need to serve you, I feel that
responsibility tugging at me but I always submit to pleasing myself in worldly
ways. Thinking things that bring me pleasure wasting the time that you have
given me with things that bring my instantaneous joy. Lord, I would like to write a
eulogy today of that old man that I wish to leave behind me. Give me recognition
of my sins Lord that I would not fear You but that I would be able to show You my
love towards You through following Your commandments and making the best
out of what You have given me to use to build your kingdom Lord.
I do not wish to stand here and make repetitions of Your name that I can feel
better about myself for I know that repentance isn’t made up of words, it’s my
reaction to these words that is repentance. Repentance’s purpose is to not
make us feel better, but it is to help us follow Your word. What is the good of
knowing my sin if I don’t get rid of it? What is the good of Your word if I do not
use it in my life? Even Jesus sacrifice would be useless if I did not live by His
example. Too often we use Him as a crutch to lean on and by doing this we
refuse to see what His life really meant to our salvation. Sin is really destroyed
when we refuse to yield to temptation and we can only do this by living like
Christ. Temptation is always here, there is nothing that we can do about it except
not to subscribe to its enticement. We often dream of You destroying that sin
but it is us that must accomplish this. Nothing in this world can come between us
and Your love, or in other words Your commandments, except our own sin and
by following Your commandments we destroy it. So we see that by following
even a little of Your word, it becomes easier for is to follow it all. By using what
we have to serve You, You give us more.
I worship You Lord, but not with words not with any thing that could come from
me Lord, I worship You by taking Your name upon my own. I worship You by
doing what Christ did, becoming a living example of your word. I realize that His
sacrifice, His birth, His life means nothing if I don’t try to emulate what His life
meant, a plan for eternal life, a life without death, or in other words, sin.
I pray that I would not seek to define myself by things of this world, things that
would categorize me as someone trendy, artsy, or fashionable but I would seek
to define myself by Your word. I would like to leave behind everything I would
use to lift myself above others, I would pray that I would not take false
ownership of my life for I have given it to be used by you when I was baptized.
I pray that when I am gone Lord, my friends and family would not remember me
but rather remember what You did in my life. I pray that these people here today
would not remember the servant that spoke these words, but they would
recognize that they are from You and react to them. My words and my life means
nothing if they are not used to follow Your word. This is humility, not to put down
ourselves but rather realize that everything we have comes from You and
should be used for You.
I leave my sin behind today Lord and give my life once again back to You, that I
would become one with you Lord by living not my own life but Yours. I pray that I
would be an example of your word that others may follow it as well and most of
all I pray that I would not resurrect that man of sin that I have buried and
eulogized today but I would always seek You before myself.
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| Joshua Miller |
