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TESTIMONY

An Internet company in Spain is offering clients a chance to leave one final message from their loved ones. The company gives people, the chance to write one last e-mail complete with video clips or photo attachments which can be sent to loved ones, friends or even enemies after the person who wrote it has died.

The Company offers four plans ranging from a free service allowing users to send a one-time e-mail, to a lifetime membership allowing unlimited e-mail and megabytes of storage space. Users can update and rewrite their messages as often as they like before they pass on.

Alberto Iriarte is the director of the company. He says, "Most people leave notes behind in drawers or boxes hoping they will be found after they die" he adds, "This is the same, but via Internet." Iriarte says his company is not trying to make money out of death. Instead he sees the company offering help in the grieving process. Iriarte adds, "People find computers more intimate and private than letters and they feel freer to say things this way." He says the service is not a substitute for a will but is only a modern version of the drawer or box where people have always left their final messages.

—http:// cnn.technology/Associated Press, Web Site Offers After-Death e-mail, September 29, 2004. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell.

People find many ways to leave something lasting for our friends and loved ones to remember us by. The best message we can leave is a strong testimony through our lives.

Hebrews 11:4 (NASB) "By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks."

Adrian Gonzalez is the first baseman for the Boston Red Sox. He is also a believer. Each of his bats bears the inscription Ps 27:1. The psalm reads, “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”

We may never walk to the plate to take swings in a major league ball game, but we all have major league moments in our occupation. Gonzalez’ remedy for putting things in perspective is a good one. 

Psalm 27:1 (ESV) The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 

TESTIMONY

In the closing seconds of the playoff game between the Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints, Viking quarterback Case Keenum connected with his receiver for the winning touchdown. In a widely televised post-game interview Keenum remarked, “This was the third best moment of my life behind giving my life to Jesus Christ and marrying my wife.”

Most of us will never have the opportunity to speak to millions of people about how important we hold our relationship to Christ. The question is, do we take the opportunities we do have to lift up Jesus Christ? —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell.

World Magazine, February 3, 2018 p. 10

Matthew 10:27 (CSB)

What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. What you hear in a whisper, proclaim on the housetops.

TESTIMONY

An automobile accident injured Philadelphia Phillies baseball player Sean Rodriguez in the 2016 off season when a thief rammed a stolen police cruiser into the SUV Rodriguez was driving. His wife and two of their four children were also in the SUV. Giselle and the children suffered serious injuries in the crash that killed the driver of the stolen vehicle.

Rodriguez suffered significant shoulder damage. For the 2017 and the 2018 season his play suffered. Sean said, “The accident brought my wife, my family, me, even closer to each other and to God. We weren’t gonna take any blessings for granted. Whether God wanted me to keep playing or not, so be it.” Finally, in 2019 his game returned to his former level.

One leadership consultant for pro baseball teams says that “Rodríguez’s Christian faith at work in how he holds himself and his fellow players to a high standard: Sean is driven by a love for Christ and his teammates.”

Rodríguez says: “Baseball is a platform for my faith.”

World Magazine, November 23 2019 p. 57

This is a great testimony and a great challenge for us, to make whatever it is we do as a platform to share our faith. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (CSB)

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.