What will you be worth after your dead?

(A post from the “Hills” instead of the Wildwood, but anyway…)

Elizabeth Taylor made $210 million in 2012; Elvis Presley, $55 million; Marilyn Monroe, $10 million…even Steve McQueen, $8 million.  

And all of them passed away before 2012.

It was interesting to read this in Forbes, 11/19/12 and to see how each of these and countless others made this amount in the past 12 months…yes, after their deaths and in some cases many, many years after their death.

Name power is still strong, of course.  Marketing that name is even stronger.

What crossed my mind?  Of course, I thought of Abel.  “By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh” (Heb. 11:4).  After many more years than those listed above, Abel’s offering by faith still speaks from the dead.

I think of the name power of Christ even to this day from Acts 4:12, “Neither is their salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.”

How are we marketing HIS name in our lives and by our lives?

And, how much will we be worth after we are gone?  Will our faith live onward?  And, what will it be worth?

Just a thought on a quick Saturday…from the “Hills.”