Leave A Legacy

Acts 5:15

People brought the sick into the streets...so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on them as he passed.

Who have you touched with your shadow?

C.H. Spurgeon

Brethren, if you wish to give your children a blessing when you die, be a blessing to them while you live. If you would make your last words worth the hearing, let your whole life be worth the seeing.

"Only Remembered" by Horatius Bonar, sung by Ira Sankey at the funeral of C.H. Spurgeon

Fading away like the stars of the morning,

Losing their light in the glorious sun—

Thus would we pass from the earth and its toiling,

Only remembered by what we have done.

Only remembered, only remembered,

Only remembered by what we have done;

Thus would we pass from the earth and its toiling,

Only remembered by what we have done.

Shall we be missed though by others succeeded,

Reaping the fields we in springtime have sown?

No, for the sowers may pass from their labors,

Only remembered by what they have done.

Only the truth that in life we have spoken,

Only the seed that on earth we have sown;

These shall pass onward when we are forgotten,

Fruits of the harvest and what we have done.

Pastor Brad Small, Reset Church “The Way of Faith – Leave a Legacy”

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Hebrews 11:26 "(Moses) regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward."

Henry Alford, "The Year of Prayer; Family Prayers", 1866

Teach us day by day what Thou wouldest have us do, and give us grace and power to fulfill the same. May we never from love of ease, decline the path which Thou pointest out, nor, for fear of shame, turn away from it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life”

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

(of such moral excellence and virtue as to inspire others)

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time.