Writing Your Legacy
"An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning will not be blessed at the end." - Proverbs 20:21
The mortality rate for humans is 100%. The fact is that someday you are going to die. People will say nice things about you, watch your casket roll out, then go back in the church and eat fried chicken and green bean casseroles. And then they are really going to talk about you!
What will they say? Will they talk about your business accomplishments and awards you have received? Will the conversation read like a resume, listing titles you have been given and degrees earned? Or will they talk about the good things you have done for others, how well you led your family, and how you loved the Lord? Will the stories be about outrageous public actions or examples of your integrity?
Your legacy is up to you. Wouldn't it be better for your heirs to be left with a legacy they are proud of?
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3 Comments
Great reading each day...thank you! You may want to insert the day and date at top as the last few days have been without it.
Blessings.
Henry
- Henry Holley
And then, after the chicken and green bean caserole, comes the yard sale where they sell all the "little treasures" you thought were so important!
Seriously though, I have been to a lot of funerals lately, and the best ones are celebrations of both a life well lived and the certainty that our loved one is with the Lord. What a blessing it is to belong to Christ Jesus. - Grant
Grant, you and I have been going to the same funerals sounds like. The most awful funeral I have ever presided over was that of a person who never come to know the Lord. I couldn't say anything about her because I didn't know her but her son was a member of the Church where I was Pastoring.I told everyone else about the Lord and how he would love to save those who were lost, and one of the daughters left half way thru the service mad and raising cane because I didn't lie and tell everyone how good her mother was. I am sorry I couldn't but it is great when you celebrate the life of a Born again Christian. God bless all. - Jerry