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Your Legacy – What Will It Be?

A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children, but a sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous.
Proverbs 13:22

Each life touches other lives in seen and unseen ways. You don’t necessarily have to know somebody in order to experience the blessings of their legacy. Like walking into an empty room and catching a whiff of somebody’s perfume, your influence can continue long after you’re gone. Usually, we don’t like to think about this, because: 1) we associate legacies with dying, and we don’t particularly enjoy thinking about that topic 2) we assume that since our legacy won’t be revealed for years, we don’t need to start investing now 3) we feel as if we’ve little or no control over what we leave behind anyhow. The Bible says, "A good man leaves an inheritance".  So what will yours be? More important - what’s it going to cost? If you just want to leave material things, that’s easy. Work hard, invest wisely and build your net worth. But since the best gifts aren’t always handed down in your will, why not leave something more meaningful - something that points to who you were? It’s one thing to measure your success by the money in your bank account, the size of your estate holdings, or the value of your stock portfolio. It’s entirely another to measure it by intangibles like being a faithful, loving spouse, raising godly children, being a spiritual mentor and leaving the lights on when you go! All great legacies come with a price tag. To move beyond mediocrity, you must invest every day in the invisible accounts of those who follow you!

Prayer
Heavenly Father, help me to invest today in those I influence so that they see you in what I leave behind! In Jesus’ Name, Amen

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