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Editor’s
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WHAT KIND OF MEMORIES WILL WE
LEAVE BEHIND US?
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New Year seems a good time to resolve to create special memories that we will
be able to leave behind us to bless others. If the past year has found us less than
faithful in this regard, let us leave it with the Lord and press on as we lay hold
of the God-given opportunities that lie before us. What kind of influence will
we leave when our time on earth has ended? What will be our legacy? Will the memories our family and friends have
of us encourage them to godly living and to press on in faithfulness?
This New Year, or even this new day, we
may have the opportunity to right a wrong that we have committed. We surely have an opportunity to do something
good for someone to cheer them on. We are urged in Galatians 6:10, “Therefore,
as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially
to those who are of the household of faith.” Yes, today could be the day that we exercise some of the
beautiful traits that the Apostle Paul lists in 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 on Love
in action. What a wonderful legacy we could leave in the memory of others, if when
they read these words, they think of us?
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of
angels, but have not love, I am only a
resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If
I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I
give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have
not love, I gain nothing.”