Last week we talked about knowing your purpose and this week we can see how to live that out. Our possible last words can help us! Last words are often highly regarded as what the dying person cares the most about. Legal precedence is used in court as they give greater weight to last words than other comments, not on their deathbed. Sometimes a person's last words are valuable in a court of law and other times they are just funny. For example, the battle scene in Monty Python between two knights said, “It’s just a flesh wound” as multiple limbs had been cut off. Groucho Marx said, “Die, my dear? Why that’s the last thing I’ll do!” When you don’t know what to say, make it up like Pancho Villa, who said, “Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.” Maybe if they thought about it beforehand, they would come up with something better.

God’s Word records King David’s last words and they are profound, as it states, “These are the last words of David” (2 Samuel 23:1). David goes on to say, “If my house were not right with God, surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant” (2 Samuel 23: 5). David’s house, which means all that he is responsible for, was not perfect, but David led his house to seek God first. God was David’s priority, so much so that he said it in his last words.

Have you ever thought about what your last words will be? Maybe that sounds morbid to think about it, but did you know God tells us to put our focus on the end? Psalm 90:12 says, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” Whatever you want your last words to be, they should indicate how you should live now. What do you want to have the most weight in your life?