Abraham's Blessing - Fame

"Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house ... and I will ... make thy name great ..." - Genesis 12:1-2

Fame was one of the six-fold promises of "Abraham's Blessing" and that certainly happened for our hero. The name, Abraham, is almost synonymous with faith.

Fame is one of the promises passed down to the followers of Christ¹ - not the superstar, "name on everyone's lips", kind of fame but fame where it counts - with God.

"And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever" - Daniel 12:3

Jesus told his disciples "your names are written in heaven.".² And not just them, everyone who has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord was hand-picked by God, himself.³ That means me!

When God and all of heaven knows your name for eternity - that's real fame!

- fritz

^{1 - Blog Post - November 8th, "Abraham's Blessing Like a Football"
2 - Luke 10:20
3 - Ephesians 1:5}

Taking better care of ourselves

"... and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever." - Psalm 23:6b

At the end of his life of fast living and hard drinking Micky Mantle quoted a line from a Jazz musician Eubie Blake, "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself."

Though beginning at different points in time, we are all going to live somewhere for eternity,¹ either with God or elsewhere, that's going to be a very long time.

We really ought take better care of ourselves.

- Fritz

¹ Daniel 12:2-3