Wednesday, June 15, 2005
legacy
ok, it took me 15 minutes to figure out how to post again...now i forgot what i was going to say....
oh yeah, i wanted to post part of a song i really love....it's called legacy by nichole nordeman...
I want to leave a legacy
How will they remember me?
Did I choose to love?
Did I point to You enough
To make a mark on things
I want to leave an offering
A child of mercy and grace
Who blessed Your name unapologetically
And leave that kind of legacy
how will people remember me? i worry about what people think of me now, but more importantly how much of my life will live on in others? have i made a positive godly impression on anyone? it's so easy to blend in at church, theres no challenge.....the exciting challenge comes outside the church...when people around me in the real world watch and wonder where i got that little something that they don't have yet.....and it's not because i've recited the abc's of salvation...it's because i've taken the time to be their friend and care about their life and listen to the crap they are going through....and not bat an eye when they use profanity....it's then when they see the love i have in me that is not my own....it's then and only then that the moment comes where i don't even need to bring up god...because they do....because they finally get it.....they finally get that the difference is i don't have to sell god to them....because they actually see him in me..even with all my mess ups and mistakes....that's exciting....that is the kind of legacy i want....not that i was a great evangelist....but that i was like jesus....i drew people to him because they saw something in my life that they wanted.....
oh yeah, i wanted to post part of a song i really love....it's called legacy by nichole nordeman...
I want to leave a legacy
How will they remember me?
Did I choose to love?
Did I point to You enough
To make a mark on things
I want to leave an offering
A child of mercy and grace
Who blessed Your name unapologetically
And leave that kind of legacy
how will people remember me? i worry about what people think of me now, but more importantly how much of my life will live on in others? have i made a positive godly impression on anyone? it's so easy to blend in at church, theres no challenge.....the exciting challenge comes outside the church...when people around me in the real world watch and wonder where i got that little something that they don't have yet.....and it's not because i've recited the abc's of salvation...it's because i've taken the time to be their friend and care about their life and listen to the crap they are going through....and not bat an eye when they use profanity....it's then when they see the love i have in me that is not my own....it's then and only then that the moment comes where i don't even need to bring up god...because they do....because they finally get it.....they finally get that the difference is i don't have to sell god to them....because they actually see him in me..even with all my mess ups and mistakes....that's exciting....that is the kind of legacy i want....not that i was a great evangelist....but that i was like jesus....i drew people to him because they saw something in my life that they wanted.....
// posted by jen @ 2:38 AM 
