Our Wax Museum

Have you ever been to a wax museum where you walk up to an exhibit, press a button and listen to a brief history of the person?  Well my 8-year-old just finished a class project in which she was a 'figure' in a wax museum.  On Wednesday I went to our elementary school cafeteria, found my daughter's exhibit, pressed the airplane 'button' and she, as Jackie Cochran, came to life.  'Jackie' recounted her life experiences: learning to fly, founding a cosmetics company, friendships with Amelia Earhart, Chuck Yeager and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and an extraordinary career in aviation.  If you are like me, Jackie Cochran was not someone I was familiar with.  The easiest description is that she was the female Chuck Yeager, as she was the first woman to break the sound barrier and she set more altitude and speed records than any pilot, male or female.  (I obviously learned a lot while helping her with this project.)

A wax museum is filled with extraordinary people.  Maybe that's not quite right.  A wax museum is filled with ordinary people who have become famous (or infamous) for what they did in life.  What if we knew that we would one day be featured in a wax museum?  Would we do things the same or differently? Would we sit back and say, "No one would ever press the button to hear my story" or would we stretch ourselves to see what we could accomplish?  Well, it's not a wax museum, but each of us will be featured in a similar way at the judgment seat of Christ.

II Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Thankfully, as a follower of Christ, we will be seen through the lens of Jesus.

Revelation 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

I John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.