Giving It All Away…And Getting It All Back AgainSample

Passing on the Legacy

Our job as wise stewards is to pass on wealth–all forms of it–to future generations. Passing on financial wealth is the easiest form of capital to pass on, yet in most cases it should be the last form of capital to pass on because of its inherent danger.

I know many reading this will not consider themselves to be financially wealthy, which is fine. We are all stewards of the story that God has given us. It is a good story. There are elements of pain and great joy. But it is our story. It is a story of redemption and hope.

Let me speak as a father, a grandfather even, to those reading. Our call in this day and age is to preserve and to pass on our story–our legacy–to those coming after us. Our children. Our grandchildren. Our great-grandchildren. Even those children we will never know or see.

I think God intended all along that one generation would tell the next, and they in turn tell the next. It is to be an ongoing story. Here’s our clarion call: if we recover this idea–if we give our lives to the idea of passing wealth on to future generations–then we’ll get it all back again in the form of future generations who will still follow hard after Christ.

Perhaps it is in such a time as this that God is calling men, women, and children to live this –to live for ideas bigger than themselves and to invest in things bigger than themselves. And if we do, we will bring lasting change and hope to our world.

Application: It is one thing to be inspired by a devotional study, but it’s quite another to follow through. What can you do to make your legacy a priority in your life?

This reading plan is based on the book, Giving It All Away. . . and Getting It All Back Again, by David Green, CEO and founder of Hobby Lobby. Order the complete book online. www.mardel.com/david_green