L-Legacy-Nichole Nordeman

There are some many ideas around what leaving a legacy is all about. Our world sees a legacy as you being a source of influence to the people in your life. However, a heavenly legacy is one that points to Jesus through the very living of your life.

“ I want to leave a legacy

How will they remember me?

Did I choose to love?

Did I point to You enough

To make a mark on things

I want to leave an offering

A child of mercy and grace

Who blessed Your name unapologetically

And leave that kind of legacy”

If at the very end of my days, my life didn’t point people to Jesus, my life will not have been of much significance and value. I want to be known as a person who loved people well as I loved my Savior. Unconditional love moving in and through me-the very definition of Jesus living his life through me.

Affirmation is one of my love languages. It helps to encourage and uplift me to follow Jesus wholeheartedly in a deeper way. So if you want to speak to my heart, encourage me.

We all have love languages like affirmation as I have previously mentioned. Loving people in the way that communicates love to them, encourages them to live out a legacy to the fullest. Whether it be touch, acts of service, giving gifts, quality time, show them to the people in our life. Inspire them to leave a legacy of faith through communicating love to them.

“Not well-traveled, not well-read

Not well-to-do or well-bred

Just want to hear instead

Well done, good and faithful one”

All I want at the end of my life, is for God to say well done, good and faithful servant. I want people to see that I sought to serve Jesus through the living out of my life, pointing the world to Him.

What kind of legacy do you want to leave at the end of your time on earth? A earthly one or a heavenly one?

You can begin today in leaving a legacy through offering your life to Jesus. Not just today, but every day.

Through the joys and the struggles, may there be no turning back as you seek to follow Jesus with everything you got.

May your legacy be a bold one, one that points people to Jesus every day. May you not go quietly, but full of noisy footsteps into the stairways of heaven.