Abraham was making his journey, displaying his faith innocently on his God and was making all his mistakes. Not knowing that somebody was writing his record.
The prophets prophesied and did their bits in history and passed they never knew that their record was being kept for the next generation.
David the sweet psalmist of isreal lived his life from keepping the sheep in the wilderness to ambitiously killing Golliath and later becoming a fugitive with his depressed, indebted and rejected 400 soldiers. They didn't know that their records was kept.
The most surprising one is our elder brother Job; in Job.19:23. Job.31:35. He cried and wished that his lamentations are written down for generations yet unborn.
Jesus said, we shall all appear before the judgement seat of Christ's to receive reward for everything we have done! Are you sure your records are not being written daily? Someone is watching.

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