Let me share with you a few of my favorite song lyrics from an Aaron Jeoffrey song called “Leave a Legacy”:
“I want to leave a legacy
of a servant who believed
that the world could be changed by just one life.
I want to leave a legacy —
for years from now they’ll see
that I lived only for the cause of Christ.”
For years I’ve been inspired by this challenge. For several years I have lived my life so that when I died, people would remember me and my testimony for Christ. I wanted to live my life so loudly for Christ that my testimony changed lives even after mine was over.
I’m ready to step it up a notch.
When I leave this earth, what do I want to be remembered for? Nothing. I don’t want to be remembered on earth at all.
I want to leave my legacy in Hell!
If there is a man struggling with sinful bondage and I walk into the same room as him, I want the demons to fear what I might ask God to do.
When I sit behind a piano and worship, I want the devil to run.
When I get on my knees, I want there to be red alerts in Hell. I want them to reinforce the gate because of me.
I want to live so that when I leave this earth, Hell remembers me.
Don’t be a wuss. Kill the devil.
I mean no disrespect, but I have made many decisions in my life, and I have learned that the decisions that don’t have a plan associated with them seem to fail.
So, I hope to provide you some encouragement.
Therefore, I have a question for you: How do you propose to accomplish this?
I think your plan has already been set forth in the way you live your life: genuinely and passionately. God’s will being carried out through your obedience and whole-hearted worship and submission is the only plan you need.
Keep being the amazing person you are, and your desires for such a legacy will be inevitable!
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