September 23, 2023 - INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE HEART

By David Jeremiah - Turning Point

IFH: September 23, 2023

Leaving An Interminable Legacy

C. Stacey Woods, who helped launch InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, urged every student to build an interminable legacy. "We seem slow to realize that God can only work His work in our hearts and lives when we give Him time," he said. "Too often our lives are cluttered with masses of extraneous material, unrelated activities which result in the central core of our being, namely ourselves as individual persons, being lost. But each of us should have a personal and individual relationship with the living God, be taught by Him, be formed by Him, and grow up into Him to the measure of the stature of Christ."

Let's break down Woods' philosophy into four points. To leave an interminable legacy with an unimaginable life expectancy, we must have:

• A personal and individual relationship with the living God. When we live wholeheartedly for Him, we're leaving a legacy of His Lordship to those who see the hope within us.

• A heart for being taught and formed by Him. Having given ourselves to Christ, we need to live submissively to Him each day Christ. with hearts eager to be formed into the full measure of Christ.

• A determination to cut extraneous clutter from our lives. Prioritizing is a continual process. It's tragic to squander so much time, money, and energy on temporal things and have little remaining for things eternal.

• And a zeal for pressing toward the goal of fulfilling God's will for our lives. We can say with the apostle Paul: "Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold ofme.. Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:12-14)