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Work Ethic: Leave a legacy
The potential client was listening to the life insurance guy and interrupted, “So let me get this straight. If I die . . .” He couldn’t finish the sentence because the salesman was laughing. “What do you mean, if you die?”
Call me naïve, but I’m a family guy, and I’ve always kind of assumed that most people have given some serious thought to getting their financial records in order for the time when they die, so that their estate can be passed on to their heirs in an orderly way and so that they can give a gift to the Lord’s work one last time.
How wrong I was. State probate officials report that almost 70% of Americans die intestate (without a will). How is it possible for otherwise reasonably bright people to push that important planning into perpetual mañana?
Wouldn’t you like to leave your children and your church something besides debts? “A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children” (Proverbs 13:22).
Some people laugh when they are asked about their “estate.” They think it’s a term for rich people. It isn’t. Your estate is important, even if you don’t think it is. It needs to be planned for. I’m glad that you took care of all of this before you deployed. You did, right?
May I ask you one more question? How did you choose to honor God in your estate planning?
The potential client was listening to the life insurance guy and interrupted, “So let me get this straight. If I die . . .” He couldn’t finish the sentence because the salesman was laughing. “What do you mean, if you die?”
Call me naïve, but I’m a family guy, and I’ve always kind of assumed that most people have given some serious thought to getting their financial records in order for the time when they die, so that their estate can be passed on to their heirs in an orderly way and so that they can give a gift to the Lord’s work one last time.
How wrong I was. State probate officials report that almost 70% of Americans die intestate (without a will). How is it possible for otherwise reasonably bright people to push that important planning into perpetual mañana?
Wouldn’t you like to leave your children and your church something besides debts? “A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children” (Proverbs 13:22).
Some people laugh when they are asked about their “estate.” They think it’s a term for rich people. It isn’t. Your estate is important, even if you don’t think it is. It needs to be planned for. I’m glad that you took care of all of this before you deployed. You did, right?
May I ask you one more question? How did you choose to honor God in your estate planning?
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About this Plan
The experience of serving your country overseas--and sometimes seeing firsthand man’s inhumanity to man--may teach you important lessons about life while turning your stomach at the same time. But recognize that God has an even better way for us to learn life wisdom, a way that continually draws us closer to him no matter how far from family or church we might be. Because of his great love for us, he would much rather make us wiser through words. In this way we wouldn’t be sadder but wiser; we would be wiser and happier. The Bible’s book of Proverbs is an absolute gold mine of wisdom for the daily decisions you must make. It will help you develop your personal values and tune your life’s agenda more closely to resemble God’s.
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