Written 8/25/21
Have you ever considered what kind of legacy you will leave when your time is up and you take your last breath? Will you be known for curing some horrific disease, like Covid, Cancer or AIDS? Will you be known for creating peace between warring nations like Iran and Israel? When it’s time for you to die, what will people remember you by? Will you be so successful that you will leave behind lots of money? Will you gift a hospital or some other important building to your community or your children? What will you have done for God? What will your reward be in the kingdom of Heaven? Will you be known for your outstanding preaching - reaching large crowds in big stadiums? Will you be like a Billy Graham? Maybe your name will be known all across the globe, for ‘miracle crusades’ and carry on the spirit of Benny Hinn? What kind of memory do you think God wants you to leave? Does is need to be something big, or can it be something small? Can it be a memory based on humility? Like loving a leper, washing feet, or preparing people for burial. Just maybe - your legacy will be even more important than creating a name for yourself. Maybe the memory that you leave will be like the woman who has no name - but loved Jesus with all her heart. Maybe you will be lucky enough to have a name, like “the woman with the alabaster jar.” I want to be a woman who has no name; I want to be remembered for dying to self at the Altar of God. I want to be a woman known for pouring out all of the expensive Words that were given to her by God; I want to offer myself at the Table of the Lord. “While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.” Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.” Matthew 26:6-13
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