What kind of Legacy are you leaving behind?

What harvest, what legacy will your children enjoy from your coaching, counseling, mentoring, sowing and friendship? Work to be the parent of whom your children might say: “Her children rise up and call her blessed” (Prov. 31:28) and “His children are blessed after him” (Prov. 20:7)


My husband and I had a discussion the other day. He asked me why I am wanting to volunteer at the church. He said we are always busy and I wont have time. He stated that not only am I pregnant with baby boy #4, but our two oldest boys are taking Taekwondo. Not only does it help with getting all their energy out, it teaches them Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance, Self-Control, and Indomitable Spirit…What mother doesn't what that for her boys?

My oldest son is starting his second year of Cub Scouts (he bridged into wolf). Cub Scouts is great because it teaches him many things that he will carry into adulthood. My husband said that its too much on me. I don't need to be running around all the time, and being gone all the time. My answer to this statement was: We are going to have 4 boys, who are going to be doing extra curricular activities. If that means I have to be gone everyday of the week than I their mother will do just that. I am not going to tell them NO because I want to stay home and watch TV. My boys are NOT going to do more than they can handle, but I am NOT going to deny them from doing extra curricular activities. 

On volunteering at the Church: I feel it is something that the Lord is calling me into. By me helping the Church not only am I growing closer to the Lord, it is helping me grow into a better wife and mother in what I say and how I teach them right from wrong. In the process I am showing my children that doing the Lords work is equally important. When they are all grown up and out of the house than I will have all the time in the world to sit down relax and watch TV. It is my responsibility as their mother to make sure they grow up knowing they are loved and that they were blessed, but also how to be Men of God.

Leave a legacy for your children. God’s goodness in us prompts us to leave an inheritance for our children (Prov. 13:22). Just as God gives us good gifts, so we desire to give good gifts to our children. Therefore, we must plan the inheritance and legacy we’ll leave. That plan embraces good financial management as well as an intentional teaching of God’s truths to our children.

Our legacy goes far beyond worldly possessions or good memories. It’s rooted in the eternal truths of God that passes on through the generations to our successors. Children benefit financially from an inheritance, but they will more greatly benefit from relational and spiritual blessings. Our responsibility as parents mandates that we sow love, joy, peace, kindness, mercy, patience and self control into our families and the families that come after us.