Legacy

[need2hunt]

I hope I would leave a legacy of joy, a legacy of real compassion. Because I think there is a great joy in real compassion. I don't think that you can know joy apart from caring deeply about people, caring enough about people that you do something. But I have a feeling, like... if my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I will probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live in the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions... to guide my motives, those sorts of things. Thats the only time I think we really leave a great legacy.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. My ambition to be a good guy is a fleshly ambition. And when Christ calls us to take up our cross and follow Him, a lot of us think what that means is we are supposed to lay down our vices... and were supposed to cling to our virtues. But I think that unless Christ is Lord of our virtues, our virtues become dangerous to us and dangerous to the people around us.

I think that when Christ call us to take up our cross, what he means is you must die not only to the whatever vices in your life, which he will eventually kill out, you must also die to whatever virtues you have. Your life is not valuable because your an articulate speaker, your life is not valuable because your a generous person, your life is not valuable because of any of that. If we empty ourselves of everything, and allow God to be present - then it's no longer us, it's Him. Then it becomes a spiritual thing - and that which is born of the spirit is spirit - and that's when I think that christianity really begins to make sense.

- Rich Mullins, 1955-1997

[buckee]

So true.

[Exturkinator]

that is both profound and prophetic, considering his story...