I see people obsessed with leaving a legacy for their kids.
I care not one iota about leaving my children or grandchildren money, or other material things accumulated from my life.
Proverbs 22:2
“The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.”
I don’t care one iota that I am a first generation farmer starting from scratch, I’m not that vain. I’m not the only one that’s ever done that so I don’t care if anyone follows in my footsteps or continues what I’ve started. I’d much rather they make their own tracks in this life as I have. A chance was all I was given, and I took it.
The only things given for me to build on were a faith based upbringing, work ethic, the importance of moral integrity, good values, and the meaning of honor; to stand up for the truth and for what’s right, even if it’s not in my favor.
In my opinion the greatest legacy we can pass on to our children is a legacy of those same values of love, moral character, faith and work ethic.
After my life is over and I’m dead and gone, I just want a legacy of goodness left behind to be remembered by – not an empire of land or money.
Proverbs 28:6
“Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.”
Being successful is nothing to brag about…
It’s only a culmination of timing, mentor’s, education and experience. The only 10% of bragging rights you have is the willingness to put it all together.
In the end God will judge us all and it won’t be on the material things we’ve accumulated but how we served him.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”
I’m not perfect by no means but I’ll keep trying. That’s the legacy that I want to leave behind.
