Your Legacy Is Up To You

Have you given any thought to how you want to be remembered?

If someone were tasked with writing your autobiography at the age you are at now, what do you think the reader’s impression of you would be? Would you be considered an encourager, complainer, or game changer? Are you passing on vital wisdom and sharing your gifts to the next generation (Ephesians 2:10; 1 Peter 4:10–11)?

Do you even see yourself as a role model?

Shakespeare, the great playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, said, “All the world’s a stage.” The audience is filled with a lot of mimics—imitators. What does that mean? People are watching you. How you perform and what you say and do can impact countless people. Don’t think for a minute you live in a vacuum and what you say and do doesn’t matter.

Each one of us is like a seed. Seeds represent the potential for new life, growth, and hope. Did you know that seeds and new life can emerge in the most extreme conditions and areas? Take volcanic landscapes, which comprise the most barren, rugged ground. Some of the most beautiful English gardens are built upon volcanic ash.

The same is true for us. People can step out of the most destructive landscapes and end up having a bright future and making a tremendous impact on their friends, family, neighborhood, and the world in which they live.

“In all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility” (Titus 2:7 NKJV).