Your Permanent Record

I remember having a fourth grade Social Studies teacher that would constantly threaten us that if we didn’t do whatever it was she was wanting us to do, it would go on our “permanent record.”

That “permanent record” line might sound a little silly to me today, but it sure did work on a group of fourth graders! We had images of not getting into college, not getting a job or our lives being ruined because of our fourth grade Social Studies “permanent record.”

Well, as ridiculous as that may sound to me today, there is a “permanent record” that is being kept. And, someday this record will make all the difference in the world as to whether my life has been meaningful or a waste. God keeps this record, and he writes this record down in the Book of life. Is your name in that book? Read Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11 and Revelation 20:12-15.