My legacy
Ask your father and he will inform you;
Your elders, and they will tell you. Deuteronomy 32:7
Read Deuteronomy 32:44—47
I cannot help leaving a legacy. If I tried to disappear from life altogether someone would have to clean up after me. I will always leave something. Better to leave something good and Godly. Even to pass it on while I am living. Someone, when I was little, blessed me. I know the Lord. Someone was rich enough in the things of God for me to see what they had, to want what they had. Someone gave time enough to me, and love enough to me, and now I am embraced by the love of God. Let me reflect on this tonight. Surely the Lord has given me some way in which I can offer something of his life and goodness to the next generation. It is no trifling matter.
I thank you, Father, for the faithful ones who have attracted me to you. Those who have explained the faith. Those who would not have done what they did or lived as they lived if they had not followed Jesus. The warm-hearted, the patient, those who cared for me when they corrected me, those who prayed for me and with me. Would that my life be available to the next generation, that they see me and read in me how life is lived with God. Would that my words be words worth remembering because in them Christ is reflected. Would that my life be witness to another way, another truth, another life, the way, the truth and the life that is Jesus.[1] Would that my own focus be not on myself, but upon him.
[1] John 14:6