The Legacy I Leave
Mark 8:27 (Amplified Bible)
27And Jesus went on with His disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way He asked His disciples, Who do people say that I am?
These past few months we have been overwhelmed with celebrity deaths. It feels like it has been one a week; now I’m fully aware that many others had past away as well that we will never hear about. The thing that as blown my mind away is the legacy these people have left behind.
Yeah, the TV stations recall their addictions, mistakes, affairs and falls in the public eye, but somehow they all turn back to the good. They remember the charities that donations were made to. They speak of the type of family man or woman the person was and about all they did in the community. It’s funny that we celebrate people after they are gone. Our Lord and Savior wasn’t truly recognized until after Cavalry.
What better place could we have been in, had the people in Bible days recognized the true gift they had been given? They could walk and talk and touch Jesus in the flesh. Instead they chose to gossip and plot against Him. Like MJ, McNair, Farrah, and so many others who have passed on, we all make mistakes and we all will continue too, but we should live a life so sold out to Christ that when we pass people remember the lives we brought to Christ, the souls we saved, the miracles we performed, the illnesses we healed and the blessing we were.
Today as we begin to start our daily routine of things, let’s begin to live the life of the legacy we want to be left in our name. When we die, there should be no question, if we are in heaven or hell.
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