Legacy; Psalm 102, Proverbs 10

May the mumbling commence!

What legacy will we leave behind?  Legacy – it is an important word.  Regardless if we leave behind acquaintances or friends or children and grandchildren – how will people remember us? 

You and I are only here for a short time – like the batting of one of God’s eyelids.  What we do should always be done with thought toward the generations to come – whether or not we have a biological connection with any of them or not.

Whether I try to be formed by my Creator in attitude and thought, whether I act or speak or write – I do so that the generations might be praising God just as good as or better than I did in my lifetime.  It is my hope for my son and his generation. 

It is my hope for the generations that will follow, many of which I will never live to see.  But God sees them now as plainly as He does me.  Read from Psalm one-hundred two:

This will be written for the generation to come,

That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord. 

For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary;

From heaven the Lord viewed the earth, 

To hear the groaning of the prisoner,

To release those appointed to death, 

To declare the name of the Lord in Zion,

And His praise in Jerusalem, 

When the peoples are gathered together,

And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.  (Verses 18-22)

The psalmist writes for the benefit of a people yet to come.  God looks and sees.  God hears and releases.  Praise the Lord.  Shout the Name of Yahweh from the top of your lungs.  Help to gather people together for the purpose of service to one another – not destruction or imprisonment or oppression. 

Gather, O people, for service to one another.  In such service, we serve God and grow closer to what God first intended when the Lord created us.  Kingdoms and nations and peoples will come together as one to serve the Lord.  Oh, what a beautiful vision and dream!  May this vision and dream be the legacy that we leave behind!

Let’s make our heavenly Father glad by fully utilizing the wisdom that He makes available to us.  Read from Proverbs chapter ten:

A wise son makes a glad father,

But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. (1b)

With the Holy Spirit saturating our lives, let us transform the grief of our days into gladness for the generations that come.  Let us do all of this so that generations to come may have bountiful reason to praise the Lord.  Let us start the foundation for the vision and dream of coming together to serve one another.  That foundation is found only in the Way of Jesus the Christ.

Let us follow the Christ together in his Way.

Enough mumbling for now…

Peace Out