Recently I heard a talk given by Louie Giglio in which he discussed how each of us preach our own funeral service. My life is the sermon given at the service.
Thinking about these words made me stop and consider what the legacy of my life will be. How do I want to be remembered? How do you? If you don't have any idea of how to answer this question, do you really know what you're living for?
Maybe you are living for your job and the money it provides you with. Being able to buy what you want, when you want it, drives you. Will your legacy be to leave wealth and/or possessions to your children or friends?
Maybe you are living for happiness. As long as you are happy, no price is too high and nothing can slow you down. Will your legacy be friends with happy memories of late nights and crazy days with you?
Maybe you are living for safety and being comfortable. You don't adventure too far from the town you live in, maybe not even the couch you sit on. Anything that has even the potential of being dangerous is better avoided. Will your legacy be one town that knows your name?
None of these are wrong in and of themselves. But, don't you think you might be selling yourself short? Could you possibly be capable of so much more?
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
- Proverbs 29:18
I was impacted by those same words of Louie Giglio. They do cause one to consider ONE'S perspective.
ReplyDeleteOh God, be Thou my vision.
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