What Will You Leave Behind?

I love this devotional from “The Word For Today”.

What Will You Leave Behind?

"When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you." 2 Samuel 7:12 NIV

Solomon says, "The memory of the righteous will be a blessing" (Proverbs 10:7 NIV). So, how will you be remembered? Whatever your story, you're writing it now. Don't get the wrong idea; we're not thinking about dying so much as we are about living.

Here are five things that will remain when you go.

1. Your investments for Christ in people: therefore you must increase your spiritual deposits.

2. Your prayers will live forever before God's throne: therefore you must pray more, and pray for the generations that may follow you.

3. Your life's story may live on to inspire others: therefore you must live to the fullest God's script of faithfulness, excellence and godliness.

4. Your giving can enable your local church to reach your community, cause a mission's school to thrive, a devotional to be printed, a Christian station to be supported, or a lost loved one to be reached: therefore you must give, and give sacrificially so that the harvest you reap will far outlive the seeds you have sown.

5. Your children will carry your physical and spiritual DNA: therefore you must know that they walk with God, and that the faith of your fathers will live on through your children and your grandchildren to touch future generations.

Concerning Abel, the Bible says, "By faith he still speaks, even though he is dead" (Heb 11:4 NIV).

You can touch the future for good and for God – but only if you plan to!

The Word For Today
by Bob & Debby Gass & Ruth Gass Halliday