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I don’t believe that God was content for humanity to live in the Garden of Eden.

Don’t wait passively for His return.

All the spiritual disciplines in the world cannot grow the fruit of the Spirit if we don’t have Him.

May an understanding of what it cost Him to atone for our sins make us more reluctant to sin and quicker to repent. Thank God He did the atoning “once for all.”

Jesus speaks of the fate of the dragon in John’s Revelation of Christ 

That refreshment is nothing compared to the refreshment from the well of salvation. The Lord’s living water refreshes like nothing else ever will.

There isn’t much left of this old pier on the Fraser River. A few nearly rotted-out pilings mark the spot where it once stood. What was its story?

Was it used to moor small craft? For logging? Fisheries? All are possibilities along this stretch of the river. It once served a purpose, but now it sits largely forgotten and will eventually decay, slowly rotting away until nothing remains to show it was ever there.

Places like these, along with old abandoned buildings, capture my imagination. I wonder what their story was, and long to hear the tales they could tell if they could speak.

Alas, they remain silent, unable to share their history and legacy. As I pondered the ruins, I wondered what my legacy would be. How will I be remembered? It’s a natural question.

Few of us leave a legacy that lasts more than a couple of generations. Of all the billions of people who have ever lived, relatively few have left behind a mark remembered more than two or three generations. Even most of those faded into obscurity over the long haul.

Wealthy individuals spend fortunes to ensure their names live on in hospitals, libraries, and sports stadiums. Yet those things are eventually replaced, renamed, or fall into ruins.

While it would be nice, in a way, to leave a legacy here on earth that lasts forever, it’s not going to happen.

I hope that the legacy of my life results in a few words from Jesus when I arrive in glory.

In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus tells a parable about a master who entrusts some currency to some servants. Two of the servants are faithful to invest it well, but the third does not.

To the servants who were faithful, Jesus says,

 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ Mathew 25:21

I long to hear those words. In truth, I haven’t always been faithful, and the times I have been, it was only with this help. Still, I long to please the one who died to save me.

My performance won’t impact my salvation. We are saved by grace, through faith in His finished work. Yet He loved me enough to die for me, how else can I show my gratitude?

I pray that your legacy is to hear the Lord say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

Be blessed

Hallelu Yah / Praise God 
Kevin

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Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture is from the English Standard Version (ESV).

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