Our Legacy

A lifeless visitor from space passed between our world and our moon.  We can be thankful that it missed us by 210,000 miles.  A direct hit would have been devastating.  It would not have been the first time we have been hit.  One of the more obvious hits was in New Mexico and the crater is very impressive.  Years ago we stopped for a closer look and walked to the edge.  While doing so my wife looked down and there was a very well formed arrowhead.  We could hardly believe what we saw.  How long had it been lying there?  What ancient warrior or hunter had passed that way and left his treasure on the ground to be found hundreds (?) of years later.

I’m sure all of us have wondered what we will leave behind.  What will be our legacy to our families, our communities, and our world?  Some people leave books, some leave poetry, some leave children and grandchildren, some leave students, some leave family businesses.  Whatever it may be I think we all want to be sure what we leave will be positive and make the world a better place.  When I say “all” I am thinking of the mentally healthy among us, for there are those who for reasons unexplainable want to leave destruction and pain.

This past week the world’s population topped seven billion. It is difficult to conceive that God has seven billion different tasks that need to be accomplished.  Yet that is but a small number for an infinite God who does have a positive task for everyone.  See Ephesians 2.  Most of us will not know until heaven exactly what it was, but that’s okay.  Just so when we do find out we will have the joy of having been successful.

Written by Roger Bothwell on November 9, 2011

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