Our wisdom today comes from Proverbs 10:7.
“The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.”
We all leave a legacy! A legacy is not about money or things. It is the enduring impact and memories you leave behind that continue to influence others long after you are gone.
All men and women leave a legacy, either for good or for bad. Most of us have walked through cemeteries and read, “Gone but not forgotten.” Very few will be remembered for 100 years, but for three or four generations, our legacy will still be shaping someone. If our legacy is good, then it will be a blessing. If it is wicked, then it will still be leading some to rotten actions.
In Numbers 14:18, the Bible talks about the iniquity of the fathers coming to bear upon the third and fourth generations. This doesn’t mean that God will grab our children and punish them. It means that the memory of the good or the evil you have done will still be influencing children for generations.
500 years before Jesus came to earth, Pericles wrote, “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
Your legacy is the echo of your life!
I’m Lonnie Davis and these are thoughts worth thinking.