Legacy of Love

      If recent world events have taught us on the Historical scales of justice. They are hinge moments, Mankind has always thought that we can control outcomes and shape our desired or preferred future. Our Father is not threatened by those who oppose us, for He loves them too. His is willing to scatter us for the sake of the Kingdom for we are His seed after all and His cry gets louder with every generation, Whom shall I send? What do you see? Is greatness a mere measurement of the sum total of our success? So let’s take a look at these three things: 1. Leaving a mark: This is shaped by our actions rather than our words. 2. Shaping a Legacy: This is how history will judge your life’s effort. 3. An Inheritance: What you leave behind for future generations Firstly, Leaving a mark: This is shaped by our actions rather than our words. Matthew 21:28-32 that story concludes with these words: For John (the babtiser) came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Although you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him. Gen 2: 8-11 . Gen 4:3 At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord. 4 But Abel brought some of the firstborn of his flock—even the fattest of them. The Hebrew term מִנְחָה (minkhah, “offering”) Verse : 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast? 7 Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.” Romans 3:20 The Mark he leaves on us is the Mark we make in the World. Secondly Shaping a Legacy: This is how history will judge your life’s effort Proverbs teaches us: That we should teach a child in the way they should go, but to remember that even if they part from it, it will not part from them, my paraphrase. Legacy is not how you start, it’s how you finish and how you’ll be remembered. Finally: Our Inheritance: What you leave behind for future generations by being willing to pay the price today! The very famous line from a Tennyson poem titled “In Memoriam A.H.H penned by a Jewish Spaniard in the 11th century of the common era : Tis a Fearful Thing by Yehuda Halevi Death then, is a point of convergence of what is human with what is holy. This reveals the true nature of love. When we love, we risk our hearts greatest fear, to lose what we’ve loved. Love merges what is human with what is Holy. My heart knows love, thus my heart knows pain! Like an image of the horizon, constantly before us appearing to be within our grasp we find that we cannot reach it for it is always just beyond. It is a fearful thing to love and a holy thing to be loved by Him.