What Is A Legacy?

It is Friday, 4th December 2020, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

If we go to the Book of Judges in the Old Testament, Judges Chapter 2 and verse 7:

“So the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord which He had done for Israel.”

I want to speak to you this morning about legacy.

What is a legacy?

Well, according to the Oxford Dictionary, it is something handed down by a predecessor.

What are you and I handing down to the next generation today?

Is it fear, negativity, hatred, immorality? Or is it like Joshua and his generation?

Is it serving The Lord Jesus Christ?

You know, the younger generation are desperately looking for role models in the world, and if they cannot find good ones, then they will follow after anyone - and that is a dangerous place to be.

Paul said in the Book of 1 Corinthians Chapter 11 and verse 1, he said, “Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.”

Wow! Can you say that? Can I say that? Well, we should be able to.

It is not what you say in this life that counts, but rather, it is what you do or don’t do that matters.

You know, there is a very dear friend of mine, him and his dear wife live in a small bachelor flat in Harare, Zimbabwe.

He is a senior man, in my age group.

He was an extremely successful commercial farmer. He had an agricultural college and a school on his farm.

He took care of the poor and the rural people, but he was unjustly chased off his farm, at the point of a machete.

But this man, before he left, with only his shirt on his back, he asked the perpetrators if he could show them how to operate his equipment, his irrigation system, etc.

Instead of being angry and filled with hatred and bitterness, he did the opposite.

He went and sat in that little flat and he started an organization called, “Farming God’s Way”.

He and his Christian team of men and women are teaching the poorest of the poor, how to grow food for themselves, without modern, sophisticated farming machinery that the first world countries are using, but because he is doing it God’s way, he is confounding the wise of this world.

What a legacy to leave behind.

Thank you Brian. Thank you Kath.

Let us go out today and leave a legacy that our children can follow after.

God bless you and have a wonderful day.