Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK …Please take the time to take in a YouTube with images and lyrics from Nichole Nordeman singing her song … Legacy … poignantly singing of how we, having been given the legacy of Christlikeness from others in our past must leave a similar legacy of witness and we do all we can to shine Christ’s light thru the way we live.
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Highlight Verse[s]: 2Timothy 1:5 [NLT] … 5 I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you.
… Paul gives honor to Timothy’s grandmother and mother for the faith they instilled in Timothy.
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Highlight Passage [context]: 2Timothy 1:3-7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul testifies and gives honor to the faith in Christ passed down to Timothy from Timothy’s grandmother and mother.
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Extended Highlight Passage: … 2Timothy 3:14-15 [NLT] … 14 But you must remain faithful to the things you have been taught. You know they are true, for you know you can trust those who taught you. 15 You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus.
… Paul shows Timothy the importance of the legacy of God’s truth that was taught to him, giving Timothy the charge to pass that along to other Christians in Ephesus, where Timothy was to be their Pastor.
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Reference Passage : … Matthew 5:14-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus charges those who have the light of Christ in their hearts to shine that light for others to see.
Reference Passage : … Acts 1:8 [NLT] … 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
… Jesus charges those who have been instilled with the light of Christ thru His Spirit to be His witnesses to others in our sphere of influence.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Arthur Jackson, uses a personal remembrance to teach on how we can - and should - leave a legacy of Christlikeness to those around us, by shining the light of Christ which has been lit in our hearts. The ODB author wrote … Her name was long but her years were even longer. Madeline Harriet Orr Jackson Williams lived to be 101 years old, outliving two husbands. Both were preachers. Madeline was my grandmother, and we knew her as Momma. My siblings and I got to know her well; we lived in her home until her second husband whisked her away. Even then she was less than fifty miles away from us. Our grandmother was a hymn-singing, catechism-reciting, piano-playing, God-fearing woman, and my siblings and I have been marked by her faith.
When I was a new, somewhat baby, Christian, God led me to a mentor who had been raised into Christlikeness by his family, somewhat like Timothy was by his grandmother and mother and then by the Apostle Paul. The light of Christ, for Paul, of course, had been established by Christ Himself; but Paul realized that that he had been given the opportunity to fan the flames of Christ which had been lit for Timothy by his grandmother and mother (see highlight passage).
I hope - and pray - that all reading here take the charge of Christ (see Matthew 5:16 and Acts 1:8) to do all we can to give witness to others by the way we live and to pass along the essence of Christ in us to others in our sphere of influence.
So, we need to ask ourselves, … are we honoring our Lord and those who have shined His light in our life by passing along the torch of Christlikeness as the runners would in a relay race (see photo)? Because, that light definitely needs to be shared as we do all we can to build a legacy of Christlikeness in those we know/love.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for Your legacy of love that has been planted in my heart by Your Spirit.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me and to do all we can to leave a legacy of Christlikeness by the way we pass the torch of God’s love to others. … Amen
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