By Ada Brownell
Excerpt from Imagine the Future You, Chapter 2
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REVIEW: "My oldest daughter once told me that our churches didn't
prepare kids for college. After having given her heart to Christ at a young age
and then attending church through high school, she took a course in
Western Civilization at college that almost threw her. No one had questioned
her about her faith until then. No one had placed alternative roads to
life before her. Ada Brownell's latest release, Imagine
the Future You does
just that--prepares young people for their future."
What about your name? Your
name has already appeared in many places. It first appeared on your birth
certificate and the wristband you wore in the hospital after you were born. The
newspaper might have run your name with the births. It certainly was on the
birth announcements your parents mailed to friends and relatives.
Your doctor has a whole file
that begins with your name. The school has files with you as the star. If and
when you get a job, there will be files on you.
The government has archives on
you, beginning with your Social Security number. The driver’s license bureau
will keep records under your name. Your name will appear on loans, titles, and
deeds.
Your name will be in the news
in many cities if you make the honor roll or you receive awards or do notable
things. Your name will be listed with marriage licenses and your engagement and
wedding announcements may be in the newspaper—but hopefully it won’t be in the
divorce column. If you are in a serious accident or arrested after age
eighteen, your name would be in the news.
If you become a screen star, a politician, an inventor, a hero,
extremely wealthy, a philanthropist, a model, a successful businessman, a
writer, or just someone who voices an opinion in the right place, people will
see your name. Your name could become a household word.
Mostly, however, our names are spoken more than written, as Joseph’s
was. Sometimes your name just runs around in people’s heads.
For sure, unless the Lord Jesus Christ returns first or you are lost at
sea or buried in an unknown tomb, someday your name will appear on a tombstone
or an urn containing your ashes.
For the most part, your name reflects who you are and what you do.
Today is the day to prepare for the future and decide who you will be and what
you will do.
That brings us to an important book where you’d want your name to
appear.
IMAGINE ULTIMATE ACHIEVEMENT
Your success at achieving the ultimate life begins with your name in
the Book of Life, the “Who’s Who” of who is going to live forever in heaven.
How do you get in?
Different from some other Who’s Who books,
you aren’t required to pay a fee or buy that edition. An entry is free of cost
to you—but a huge amount already has been paid in blood for your name to be
included. That’s called redemption because we were born into sin and the
penalty for sin is death. But we have to accept it.
Jesus told his disciples to rejoice that their names were written in
heaven.[1] The last book
of the Bible, Revelation, has multiple references to the “Book of Life.”[2]
Revelation chapter 20 describes the vision the Apostle John saw of the
Great White Throne Judgment: “I saw the dead, both great and small, standing
before God’s throne. And the books were opened, including the Book of Life. And
the dead were judged according to things written in the books.”
In chapter 21, we’re given a
description of heaven that “has no need of sun or moon, for the glory of God
illuminates the city, there will be no night, nothing evil will be allowed to
enter, and the only humans who will be there are those whose names are written
in the Lamb’s (Jesus) Book of Life.”
It all begins when we make a decision to believe, and when we repent of
our sins and accept the redemption, the abundant life, Jesus promised.
That’s when your name becomes special.
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