YOUR LEGACY

If you have been reading papers lately, especially the New Paper, you would have seen this article of a 16-year old student named Samuel Tan, from St Hilda's Secondary School who has passed away due to dengue fever.

Click HERE to read the article.
Click HERE to read the tributes by members from Boys' Bridage 49 Coy.

I'm writing a short reflection here which I believe you are mature enough to start to reflect on it and question yourself. Please read on.

I was reminded of this thing called the legacy we leave behind when we die. We will die one day, whether we like it or not. The main point is not how we die, but how we have lived our life that would leave an impact on the life of other people around you, such as your parents, siblings, schoolmates and friends. Do you live a life such that God can make a great impact through you into other people's life, so that when you depart from this world one day, the impact of God's love, mercy and grace will continue to live on in their hearts?

Would you want to hear these words coming from their mouth when they attend your wake - "I don't see God in this person's life at all" ... or would you want to hear these - "I thank God because this person has exhibited so much of Christ-like characters, that I want to believe in this God .. and I want to be like this person for the rest of my life" ?

Samuel Tan did it ... a leader in his school's Boys' Brigade who had the heart of a servant ... to serve and not to be served.

Rich Mullins, a songwriter who wrote Awesome God and passed away in a car accident, once said these - "If my life is motivated by an ambition to leave a legacy, what I would probably leave is a legacy of ambition. But, if my life is motivated by the power of God's spirit in me and the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow his presence to guide my motives, that's the only time I think we have a great legacy."

Would you want to leave a legacy of your own ambition which God cannot use it for His glory and nobody else will remember, or do you want to leave a great legacy which is motivated by God's spirit and Christ, that many more people will start to praise the Lord? Have I lived a life that truely reflected Christ in me or am I just wasting my life away, missing all the opportunities which God could have used me for His glory ... and eventually God could not even use me at all because I have become lukewarm, neither warm nor cold and have to be spitted out from His presence?

The choice is yours. What is your choice?

Will you be able to say this as your last words before you pass on - “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7) ?

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Please take time out to read these two devotions if you have not done it yet:

Click HERE to read the devotion from My Daily Bread - 20 Sep 2006.
>Click HERE to read the devotion from My Utmost For His Highest - 20 Sep 2006.