Think About It

Files....we have lots of them.....gazillions of pieces of information about our existence.  Listing any accolades we may have received; awards we may have been given; corrections, address changes, marital changes, additions to insurance.....all kinds of tidbits of information.  If I picked up a file and read the contents, I could learn quite a lot about a person, but I would not be able to learn much of WHO the person happens to be.Recently, it hit me that our lives are merely reduced to a few pages in a file and a few lines in an obituary.  

Is that all God created us to be?  Mere pages and a few lines?  Absolutely NOT!  WE are the ones who have done that.  God created us to interact with each other; have an impact on each other; care about each other; support each other; help each other and, dare I say it, LOVE each other!  God designed our lives to go beyond our years on this rock.  God designed us in such a way that we are the legacy of the generations who were before us.  God designed us in such a way that we leave a legacy in the generations who will come after us.

How do we create such a legacy?  Let me give you something to think about: "It is in the every day acts of kindness toward others that leave the most lasting impressions."

Let's start right this minute and take our lives from the pages of a file to living the legacy we want to leave. 

 "Whenever you are able, do good to people who need help" (Proverbs 3:27).

 "When we have the opportunity to help anyone, we should do it. But we should give special attention to those who are in the family of believers" (Galatians 6:10).