Wednesday, November 01, 2006

• Currently Reading The Sea By John Banville see related

  I've been thinking about legacies....what we're going to leave behind. 

  I mean, besides our kids and what we nurture in them, will we actually have a legacy to leave?  It could be a despressing melancholy, to think that when I die, I will have not left any mark on this earth that would matter in God's Kingdom.... 

  The thing is, we may never know the legacy that we leave.  We may never have our names mentioned in history books.  We may be completely forgotten, entirely nameless in 100 years.  BUT, maybe one of us will build a church that is so beautiful, that 1,000 years later, it inspires a songwriter to write a worship song that touches the entire world.  One of us might go to India and talk to a child on the beach about Jesus, and then this child starts attending a local church.  He grows up to be an evangelist who touches his nation with the truth of Jesus Christ, but he doesn't ever remember the name of that "lady" who talked to him that day on the beach.  Maybe, one of us will become a developer, who buys land in an area that everyone thinks is  a huge risk, just because instincts tell you to, and 200 years later, this building becomes a center for the homeless and those most in need....perfectly located for them.  Or one of us might begin praying for our city, fervently, for years, that revival might come, and then, suddenly, through a life changing catastrophe, God touches the heart of the people and revival breaks out in the city that goes on for 15 years.  But no one will ever know it was your prayers that started the revival.

  Maybe, when we stand before God, we will be surprised by joy.....that we made a difference.  Maybe, it's all about living our lives the best we know how.....Just doing the "stuff" that Jesus has called us to do and trusting Him for the rest....

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