Life’s Legacy
How wonderful to be among a packed out house of worshipers last night! The service was presented by one family —one brother gave the opening prayer and welcome, the cousins sang, another brother gave an encouraging, humorous, well-presented inspirational message. Some of the songs were new to us and others old favorites; some in a different language (not tongues but Spanish).
I’ve been to this place before but it wasn’t the same then—the people before were somber and without hope. Both times the people were looking back at a life of a loved one but the funeral service last night was one of certainty of the love of God for all who have slipped their hand in His. While candidly speaking of their loss and grief of their father passing into eternity with God, they spoke of his legacy of a life spent serving and exalting our heavenly Father. The faithfulness of God in caring for His children was apparent through the many examples of God’s provision for an obedient servant who left high school with only three months remaining until graduation because he felt such urgency in his calling to evangelize. Coming from a family of twenty children, pennies were counted and the masa stretched but they were given a foundation of faith which lives on in his children, grandchildren, and many other individuals.
My heart’s cry is to let me “pass if forward”, as well as, I run the course God has set for me.
