Legacy

A girl in our church sang the Nicole Nordeman song "Legacy" this week. It was accompanied by a PowerPoint of photos of people in the church who have left a real legacy, like Ms Nordeman's music video does.

Every one leaves a legacy when they're gone. Some are fleeting and shallow. Other leave a legacy of permanence.

I think of a man who gave up a very successful business and country estate. He decided to go back to school and then enter the ministry. God has used him as a mighty tool.

Sometimes a legacy can be as much about what you leave behind. Not bricks and mortar, like many people like to put their names on before they die.

There's the missionary who gave up a prestigious degree to work with kids and orphans in a desolate area. There's the couple who despite their own three kids, adopted three more out of abusive situations.

What kind of legacy are you leaving? Great career, nice 401k? Or something more permanent, in the lives and faiths of others.

Each day we build for either the temporal or eternal.