March 15, 2024 … What’s Our Legacy? …

March 15, 2024 … What’s Our Legacy? …      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Nicole Nordeman  singing … Legacy …  Poignantly, and yet  powerfully, singing of wanting to leave a legacy of how we have lived our lives for God’s glory.      

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Highlight Passage: … Ecclesiastes 5:10 [NLT] … 

10 Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!            

… Solomon warns of the meaninglessness of trying to leave a legacy of wealth.                    

Highlight Passage (in context): …  Ecclesiastes 5:8-15 … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon writes of how wealth alone should never be the legacy of our lives.                    

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 127 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… A Song of Solomon on building a legacy for our children.            

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 13:22 [NLT] …   

22 Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren, but the sinner’s wealth passes to the godly..   

… Solomon promotes godliness being passed on to the children of godly parents.        

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:19:21 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus, in His sermon on the mount, teaches of building up treasures in heaven.     

Reference Passage: … 1Timothy 6:6 [NLT] …   

6 Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.  

… The Apostle Paul teaches Timothy (and all Christians) that passing along godliness should be the goal of our ives.   

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 13:5 [NLT] …   

5 Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never fail you.  I will never abandon you.” 

… God’s Sprit, thru the Author of Hebrews, promises never to abandon those who live their (our) lives to glorify God, not relying on worldly wealth.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Tim Gustafson -  AT THIS LINK -  tells how a self-made millionaire during the dust-bowl days in Kansas, since he had no children, decided to leave a legacy for those in his area, commissioning a sculpture to create nine statues of himself and his wife and became one of the most hated people in his home town.  

And if my readers here today have taken in the poignant song by Nicole Nordeman and meditated on the Scriptures above, I believe “all y’all,” as we would say here in the South of the USA, will be asking, … as am I, …  what kind of legacy will we be leaving for those, possibly our children, to remember us?  Will it be a legacy of Godly living as Lord in His word calls us to live?  Oh, how I pray that is our eternal legacy?                        

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to live Your legacy of Godliness.     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to live today and all days building a legacy of Godliness for Your glory, Lord.    … Amen

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