My husband and I recently began “estate planning”. What this amounts to is deciding what will happen to all our “stuff” when we leave this world. One of the words used in this process is the word “legacy”, and it means what you give that will be valued and treasured by those who survive after your death.
This got me thinking. That’s all well and good, and something we should all be mindful of, but I want to give the people closest to me something that can be valued and treasured now, while I am alive and well!
As I reflected, God spoke to my heart; “The GREATEST legacy you can give your children and others is to show them what a personal relationship with Christ looks like lived out in your own personal life every, single day.”
My Daddy died when I was in my early thirties. He was the first man I ever loved – simple, loving, hard-working. He had nothing of great monetary value to leave us when he died, but he was a Godly man of impeccable character. He patterned for us how to respond as a true believer to success, failure, praise, criticism, disappointment, rejection and so many other things. His inheritance to us was his uncompromising relationship with Christ, the fruit of that relationship that was active in his life always and the Word of God that lives in our hearts because he made it a priority in our home. He LEFT a rich inheritance because he LIVED his legacy!
John said of his spiritual children in 3 John 1:4, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” I believe this was also my Dad’s greatest joy! LIVE your legacy! Don’t just leave one!
By: Kristine Morgan
~Christ Fellowship